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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
Huh? The whole point of the studies discussed in the article was that there were no differences attributable to "big data" or "algorithm," but only differences in race (based on skin color or names).
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Hence the caveat before the last section, "Jumping off..."
I see a future in which algorithms are used to sort people based on criteria discrimination law was designed to eliminate. And then are used as defenses where found to be doing so. "It wasn't me. It was the computer system." I've seen that defense myself in a discrimination case. It was not successful, but it was a legitimate defense, and can be easily employed given the increasing automation of everything.
