Media Matters, January 24th, 2019, What The Daily Wire gets wrong (and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets right) about algorithms and racism
Technology is only as good as the people who create it. Each person has biases, both implicit and explicit.
As Ocasio-Cortez noted during her conversation with Coates, if bias isn’t addressed at the development level, all algorithms will do is automate that bias, potentially making existing problems even worse.
