This is particularly disturbing for knowledge-work professionals who must shoehorn their creativity into these mechanical, often rigid methodologies that add a constant pressure to produce, produce, produce. Write faster. Draw more. Ideate
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“The digital poorhouse is massively scalable. High-tech tools like automated decision-making systems, matching algorithms, and predictive risk models have the potential to spread very quickly.”
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
“The digital poorhouse is hard to understand. The software, algorithms, and models that power it are complex and often secret. Sometimes they are protected business processes, as in the case of the IBM and ACS software that denied needy”
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
“The digital poorhouse is persistent. Once they scale up, digital systems can be remarkably hard to decommission. Think, for example, about what might happen if the world learned about a gross violation of trust at a large data company like Google.”
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
“Is there no virtue among us?” asked James Madison, rhetorically. “If there be not, no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.”
― The Common Good
― The Common Good
“When automated decision-making tools are not built to explicitly dismantle structural inequities, their speed and scale intensify them.”
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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