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“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
“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
“Our compact is not just with those who are alive today. It’s also with those who have come before us and those yet to be born. To the founding fathers, the Constitution and our system of government established a moral bond connecting generations. “There seems…to be some foundation in the nature of things, in the relation which one generation bears to another, for the descent of obligations from one to another,”
― The Common Good
― The Common Good
“Containment in the physical institution of a county poorhouse had the unintentional result of creating class solidarity across race, gender, and national origin. When we sit at a common table, we might see similarities in our experiences, even if we are forced to eat gruel. Surveillance and digital social sorting drive us apart as smaller and smaller microgroups are targeted for different kinds of aggression and control. When we inhabit an invisible poorhouse, we become more and more isolated, cut off from those around us, even if they share our suffering.”
― 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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