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The dangers of automating social programs

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Is it possible to keep bias out of a social program driven by one or more algorithms?

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          Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 10
          October 2018
          107 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/3281635
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