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New technologies used to deepen racial oppression
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
By Ruha Benjamin
(Polity Press, £14.99)
Race After Technology, by prominent sociologist Ruha Benjamin, explores the increasingly important but little-understood topic of how new technologies are used to deepen racial oppression.
Machine learning algorithms are taking over a wide variety of functions that were previously carried out by humans.
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