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Assignment:
Read the following articles and answer the discussion questions. DO NOT USE CHAT GPT OR ANY AI.
Read: "The algorithms that make big decisions about your life" (BBC) Skim Additional
Read: Lori Andrews, "Facebook is using you" (NYT Opinion) Read: danah boyd, Karen Levy, and Alice Marwick, "The networked nature of algorithmic discrimination"
Read: Ali Breland, "White Code, Black Faces" (Logic Magazine)
Read: "Machine Bias" (Pro Publica)
Read: Miranda Bogen, "All the ways hiring algorithms can introduce bias" (Harvard Business Review)
Read: Harini Suresh (MIT),"The problem with 'biased data' Read: "Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems" (pp. 1-8)
The articles this week explain how data aggregation can lead to discriminatory outcomes. Use only the assigned Week 5 reading as source material for this assignment. Using outside sources for your example is off-topic.
1) Identify an unfair use of automated decision-making from the Week 5 reading. At what stage in the automated decision-making process was bias introduced?
2) Whose interests does this unfair technology serve? How do these unfair outcomes affect us both as individuals and as a society.