Abstract
Law, Technology and Humans book review editor Dr Faith Gordon reviews Virginia Eubanks (2018) Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.
Highlights
It is difficult to imagine a future in which big data and artificial intelligence will not be prominent
There is a growing body of research and literature on automated decision-making, algorithmic accountability and the processes evolving as new forms of ‘digital discrimination’.5. The inequality in these decision-making processes and the discriminatory outcomes are the core issues explored in Virginia Eubanks’s groundbreaking new book: Automating Inequality: How HighTech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. Eubanks builds on her previous work on technology and social justice by exploring the challenges and consequences of decision-makers giving machines the power to make decisions about human needs, public benefits and state interventions in the United States (US)
Eubanks takes the reader on a journey, which is reflected in the structure of the book and the pages of firsthand accounts on the realities of the ‘digital poorhouse’
Summary
It is difficult to imagine a future in which big data and artificial intelligence will not be prominent.
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