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A review by capshaw
Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks
4.0
Compelling. At the very least it's clear that ethics should be taught in every computer science program... and even more broadly.
"Like earlier technological innovations in poverty management, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the professional middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhuman choices: who gets food and who starves, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. The digital poorhouse is part of a long American tradition. We manage the individual poor in order to escape our shared responsibility for eradicating poverty."
"I will remember that the technologies I design are not aimed at data points, probabilities, or patterns, but at human beings."
"Like earlier technological innovations in poverty management, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the professional middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhuman choices: who gets food and who starves, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. The digital poorhouse is part of a long American tradition. We manage the individual poor in order to escape our shared responsibility for eradicating poverty."
"I will remember that the technologies I design are not aimed at data points, probabilities, or patterns, but at human beings."