Algorithms Behaving Badly: 2020 Edition

Focus: Bias

Source: The Markup

Readability: Intermediate

Type: Website Article

Open Source: No

External URL: https://themarkup.org/2020-in-review/2020/12/15/algorithms-bias-racism-surveillance

Keywords: N/A

Learn Tags: Bias Fairness

Summary: A look at some of the big issues with algorithms in 2020, taken from a myriad of examples of algorithms that were either created for a cynical purpose, functioned to reinforce racism, or spectacularly failed to fix the problems they were built to solve.