Technology is responsible for increasing inequality
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Debate argues technology both creates and mitigates inequality with concrete examples: algorithms inherit training-data bias, deep learning reproduces past injustices, social platforms amplify content by editorial choices (example of a single executive overriding filters), a middle-school girl in Polk County lacks school broadband, while computers since 1980 add 18.5 million jobs, mobile adds 10+ million jobs and Dell helped 2.3 million kids get devices; AI may displace 1.8M but yield net gain 2.3M by 2020; solutions focus on ethics, regulation, curriculum and validation of models.
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