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Automating Inequality
by Virginia Eubanks
How automated systems police and punish the poor: Indiana's welfare automation, LA's homeless ranking, Pittsburgh's child welfare algorithm. Reported and damning.
Read it if…
you want to see algorithms' effects on the vulnerable.
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Skip it if…
you want AI's upside.
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Three things you will actually use
- Automation targets the poor first.
- Design encodes values.
- Ask who bears the errors.
Do this first
Read the Indiana chapter.
Our verdict
Eubanks on automation.
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