"Any data scientist working to automate issues of a social nature, in effect, is engaged in making moral and ethical decisions – they are not simply dealing with purely technical work but with a practice that actively impacts individual people." - Abeba Birhane

A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services. Increasingly, the fight over a client’s eligibility now involves some kind of algorithm. “In some cases, it probably should just be shut down because there’s no way to make it equitable,”

Sally Collier to appear before education select committee over A-levels and GCSE results debacle. Use of algorithms disproportionately affected poorer and Black communities.