I’d say algorithmic biases are much the same as the people who write them. Same problem, different legibility. https://t.co/lG4prHWzg1 —

- @umairh (http://twitter.com/umairh/status/618463980391145472).

Different scope, too – a biased algorithm can scale quite a bit more and quite a bit faster than a biased person.

Aside: isn’t a bias arguably an algorithm anyway? Bias as behavioural algorithm leads to a lack of design foresight which then leads to institutional bias in programmed algorithms. Hm.