Part I · Chapter 6Version 1.0 · 5 November 202627 min read
Historical Patterns of Discrimination in Technology
Key message
Algorithmic bias is usually not new: technologies have repeatedly carried existing social hierarchies forward, and the recurring mechanisms (continuity, encoded categories, stratification, selective optimization) can be identified and tested for before a system is deployed.
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