2018 Paper Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms The law forbids discrimination. But the ambiguity of human decision-making often makes it hard for the legal system to know whether anyone has ...

Under the right circumstances, algorithms can be more transparent than human decision-making, ... For example, in a 2004 study, Booth’s Marianne Bertrand and Mullainathan sent out résumés to employers ...

In an article on Domingos’ Master Algorithm, Slate’s David Auerbach notes that “even within computer science, machine learning is notably opaque.” But it’s also increasingly central to ...