Alex Shams is a writer and anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, and elsewhere. A political and literary forum, ...

A new common sense has emerged regarding the perils of predictive algorithms. As the groundbreaking work of scholars like Safiya Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, and Ruha Benjamin has shown, big ...

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