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Practical AI ethics with a side of technical safety.

By day software engineer and product person. By night education volunteer. Reading and writing about AI ethics and technical safety so you don't have to.

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Algorithms of Oppression

by Safiya Umoja Noble

Part research paper and part book, this examines how search engines can reproduce and amplify racial and gendered power while presenting their results as neutral. It focuses primarily on Google Search and representations of African Americans.

I do not often read religious texts; however, this is a fascinating encyclical on safeguarding human dignity, truth, work and freedom amid the transformations brought by artificial intelligence.

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