
ComputingNovember 1, 2018
Algorithms Designed to Fight Poverty Can Actually Make It Worse
How algorithms designed to alleviate poverty can perpetuate it instead
Virginia Eubanks is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, S.U.N.Y. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (St. Martin's Press, 2018). She lives in Troy, N.Y.

Algorithms Designed to Fight Poverty Can Actually Make It Worse
How algorithms designed to alleviate poverty can perpetuate it instead