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Amazing Stories Cover, 1927. Here a writer looks on at an animated robot of a woman. He wears headphones and it is not clear who is controlling who.

Losing the Plot: From the Dream of AI to Performative Equity

A question I have been thinking a lot about this week is whether there is any equitable use of artificial intelligence, given all we talked about in last week’s post about algorithmic bias. Is there any way to imagine ourselves into a future where artificial intelligences really can do the work of decision making more…