The writer is a science commentator
It is becoming increasingly hard to spot evidence of human judgment in the wild. Automated decision-making can now influence recruitment, mortgage approvals and prison sentencing.
The rise of the machine, however, has been accompanied by growing evidence of algorithmic bias. Algorithms, trained on real-world data sets, can mirror the bias baked into the human deliberations they usurp. The effect has been to magnify rather than reduce discrimination, with women being sidelined for jobs as computer programmers and black patients being de-prioritised for kidney transplants.
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