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Racial Justice at Work
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Racial Justice at Work

by Mary-Frances Winters, The Winters Group Team
February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
7h 54m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

How Algorithms Automate Bias

MEGAN ELLINGHAUSEN

Marketing and Branding Specialist

The Winters Group, Inc.

(she/her/hers)

Whether AI will help us reach our aspirations or reinforce the unjust inequalities is ultimately up to us.

—JOY BUOLAMWINI, PHD

What was the first thing you did this morning? What about the last thing you did before going to bed? Or on your lunch break? Waiting in line? In between meetings?

My guess is, like most of us, you were on your smartphone. All of those times you innocently pick up your phone, you leave a digital footprint and bits of data that are analyzed and dictated by algorithms. Algorithms are a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that are step-by-step instructions a computer follows to ...

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ISBN: 9781523003648