This book is about helping people understand the very real social harms that can be embedded in technology. The message that bias can be embedded in our technological systems isn’t really new. Broussard is an associate professor at New York University’s Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute. Her new book is More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender and Ability Bias in Tech. She appeared in the Netflix documentary Coded Bias (2020), which explores how algorithms encode and propagate discrimination. Her previous book, Artificial Unintelligence (2018), coined the term “technochauvinism” to describe the blind belief in the superiority of tech solutions to solve our problems. She has been in the vanguard of raising awareness and sounding the alarm about unchecked AI. M eredith Broussard is a data journalist and academic whose research focuses on bias in artificial intelligence (AI).
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