More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

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ISBN
9780262548328
Book Title
More than a Glitch : Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Publisher
MIT Press
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2024
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Meredith Broussard
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Topic
Social Aspects, Discrimination & Race Relations, Gender Studies, General
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
248 Pages
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262548321
ISBN-13
9780262548328
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26061848069

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Book Title
More than a Glitch : Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Social Aspects, Discrimination & Race Relations, Gender Studies, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Author
Meredith Broussard
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
303.483
Table Of Content
Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Understanding Machine Bias 11 3 Recognizing Bias in Facial Recognition 29 4 Machine Fairness and the Justice System 45 5 Real Students, Imaginary Grades 65 6 Ability and Technology 79 7 Gender Rights and Databases 103 8 Diagnosing Racism 117 9 An AI Told Me I Had Cancer 135 10 Creating Public Interest Technology 157 11 Potential Reboot 173 Acknowledgments 189 Notes 193 Bibliography 205 Index 223
Synopsis
The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery-they're coded into the system itself? In More than a Glitch, Meredith Broussard demonstrates how technological neutrality is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable. Meredith Broussard is Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. She is the author of Artificial Unintelligence (MIT Press). Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, New York Times, Atlantic, Wired, Economist, the BBC, and more. She appears in the 2020 documentary Coded Bias and serves on the advisory board for the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies., When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch-it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery-what if they're coded into the system itself? In the vein of heavy hitters such as Safiya Umoja Noble, Cathy O'Neil, and Ruha Benjamin, Meredith Broussard demonstrates in More Than a Glitch how neutrality in tech is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable. Broussard, a data scientist and one of the few Black female researchers in artificial intelligence, masterfully synthesizes concepts from computer science and sociology. She explores a range of examples- from facial recognition technology trained only to recognize lighter skin tones, to mortgage-approval algorithms that encourage discriminatory lending, to the dangerous feedback loops that arise when medical diagnostic algorithms are trained on insufficiently diverse data. Even when such technologies are designed with good intentions, Broussard shows, fallible humans develop programs that can result in devastating consequences. Broussard argues that the solution isn't to make omnipresent tech more inclusive, but to root out the algorithms that target certain demographics as "other" to begin with. With sweeping implications for fields ranging from jurisprudence to medicine, the ground-breaking insights of More Than a Glitch are essential reading for anyone invested in building a more equitable future.
LC Classification Number
T14.5.B765 2024

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