Technology solves some of the problems in our society today, but it exacerbates others, such as discrimination based on a person’s race, gender, income level or disabilities. As companies continue to invest heavily in AI/ML technology, they must take caution to ensure new products don’t fall back on old, problematic patterns that cause harm to users or others.

Meredith Broussard, author of the book More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech, joins the podcast to discuss the myriad ways these issues — not glitches — present themselves in modern technology and digital products, and what we can do about it.

You can find Meredith’s book here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262373067/more-than-a-glitch/

About the guest: Meredith Broussard is the Associate Professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. She is the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, BBC, Wired and the Economist.

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