Algorithmic Responsibility: It’s All Fun and Games Until Your Data Goes Rogue

2024 – the year I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up.  How sad that it took me well over 40 years to figure that out. So, it seems only fitting that a course I took at the beginning of the year (HR Information Systems) would lead me to that decision, and a class at the end of the year (Algorithmic Responsibility), would confirm that it is indeed what I want to do after graduation (or sometime soon after). 

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Bias in AI – A Conversation with the Commissioner of the EEOC

Alternate Title:  The First Time I Ever Spoke to an Employee of the EEOC Where I Wasn’t Simultaneously Working on Perfecting my RBF

I wrote my last EEOC charge response in the winter of 2014 – I believe the total count was 24 charge responses I wrote in 8 years’ time (all no cause determinations, thank you very much).  If you had told me back then that I would get to talk to the Commissioner of the EEOC – and enjoy the conversation, I would have quite literally laughed in your face. 

Yet here I am… 

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