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Assessing responsibility for program output

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The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.

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We lack an easy way to indicate that algorithms do not make decisions and are not biased; programmers do, and are.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 8
        August 2018
        83 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3241891
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