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What Is Techno-Chauvinism And Are We Relying Too Much on Unconscious Biased Systems? with Meredith Broussard

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Automated Systems Are Used to Perpetuate Bias

Too often the computer systems are used to perpetuate bias or in the case of something like a public assistance. The automation is actually used to edge people out of being able to access benefits. There's a really great book by Virginia Ubanks called Automating Inequality. And in it, she writes about how automated system are used to profile police and punish the poor.

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