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Symposium on Orly Lobel's "The Equality Machine"

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Reply to the Dream Team: The Critically Constructive Pathways of Building Equality Machines, by Orly Lobel

*This is the final post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Lobel will be in NYC (NYU March 23 at […]

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In Praise of Inequality, by Colleen V. Chien

*This is the eleventh post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Equality is appealing, can be SMART, and as […]

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Naïve Realism, Cognitive Bias, and the Benefits and Risks of AI, by Harry Surden

*This is the tenth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. In the The Equality Machine, Orly Lobel […]

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On the Need For (and Difficulties of) Reaching A “Mature Position” About AI, by Oren Tamir & Tomer Kenneth

*This is the ninth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. How things change. In the not-too-remote past, […]

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The Machine in the Mirror, by Stephanie Bornstein

*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. There is something both wonderful and troubling […]

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Public-Private AI Governance Partnerships, by Elena Chachko

*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine invites us to shift […]

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The Transparency Machine, by Talia Gillis

*This is the sixth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Orly Lobel’s rich and insightful book provides […]

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Dreams and Dystopia, by Matthew Bodie

*This is the fifth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. There are two books, both separately competing […]

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The Health Equity Machine?, by Jessica L. Roberts

*This is the fourth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. In her inspiring and compelling book, The Equality […]

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Discrimination and the Human Algorithm, by Mark Lemley

*This is the third post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Legal scholarship around artificial intelligence (AI) has […]

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Cycles and Loops: Human Actors in Lobel’s “The Equality Machine,” by Pallavi Bugga & W. Nicholson Price II

*This is the second post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. In the midst of abundant scholarly criticism […]

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Technology is Not the Boogeyman: Orly Lobel’s “The Equality Machine,” by Christopher Slobogin

*This is the first post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. The message of Orly Lobel’s book The Equality […]

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Can We Build an Equality Machine? An Introduction, by Rachel Arnow-Richman

*This is the introduction to a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Consider these paradoxical […]