Justice in the Algorithm

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September 19, 2025

Mustafa Ali, Word in Black

An exhibition titled the Misalignment Museum opened to the public in San Francisco on March 9th, 2023, featuring funny or disturbing AI art works to help visitors think about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. (Photo by AMY OSBORNE/AFP via Getty Images)

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AI doesn’t have to be evil. It’s not inherently racist or sexist or ableist. But it will become those things if we don’t train it differently — because it learns from us. And if we don’t teach it to see the humanity in the most marginalized, it will reinforce the hierarchies that profit from their invisibility.

Every decision we make now—about facial recognition, about predictive policing, about employment screening, about who gets credit and who gets watched—etches itself into the code of tomorrow. We are building a digital Constitution, line by line, and if equity isn’t the preamble, oppression will be the default.

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