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Khari Johnson

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06.29.2021 07:00 AM

Alondra Nelson Wants to Make Science and Tech More Just

The deputy director of the White House science office plans to tackle
algorithmic bias and start candid conversations about the past.

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Dr. Alondra Nelson"The potential benefits of automation will not be
accomplished and, indeed, will fail, if we do not develop policy that
prioritizes equity," Alondra Nelson says.Photograph: Angela Weiss/
Getty Images

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The pandemic taught us a lesson that we needed to learn again, says
Alondra Nelson: Science and technology have everything to do with
issues of society, inequality, and social life.

Khari Johnson is a senior writer for WIRED covering artificial
intelligence and the positive and negative ways AI shapes human
lives. He was previously a senior writer at VentureBeat, where he
wrote stories about power, policy, and novel or noteworthy uses of AI
by businesses and governments. He is based... Read more
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