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Budget rundown & How AI is wired up to be a privileged white man

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Man Made: How the Bias of the Past Is Being Built Into the Future

Tracy Spicer has written a book about how bias of the past is being built into the future. She says Siri and Alexa are just one really obvious way in which AI is gendered. There are automated soap dispensers in Marriott hotels around the world that only work for white hands. But believe it or not, that same technology is also being built into self driving cars.

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