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Algorithms of Oppression

How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Apr 03, 2019
While waiting on hold for this, you might enjoy related ideas in Weapons of Math Destruction. It comes from the what's-behind-big-data and what-trains-algorithms perspectives. The modern-day version of garbage-in-garbage out is not just dangerous to individuals, but entire segments of society. What's behind Google's identifying Black men as gorillas? What does your credit score have to do with why you aren't getting that job? Why won't you ever know the (intentionally secret) data that drives the (intentionally secret) decision-making process? This isn't conspiracy theory - it's an investigation into how the assumptions and experiences of people who work on these problems affect the design decisions they make, written by the PhD data scientist behind mathbabe.org. Highly recommended.