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How algorithms get sexist


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Guest: 
Sara Wachter-Boettcher [1],  a web consultant who works on designing things for people to use – and has just written a book about how that process so often goes so horribly off-track. It’s called Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and other Threats of Toxic Tech.
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Music: “Scuba [4]” by Simun Mathewson, under Creative Commons – Attribution [5] License.
 
 
[1] https://twitter.com/sara_ann_marie
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