Resource Automation + AI Mitigating Harm + Bias

The Social Life of Algorithmic Harms

This series of essays seeks to expand our vocabulary of algorithmic harms to help protect against them.

Organization: Data & Society
Published Year: 2023

The article “The Social Life of Algorithmic Harms” explores how algorithmic systems can cause harm not just through technical flaws, but through their entanglement with social, political, and institutional contexts.

It argues that addressing algorithmic harms requires understanding the broader social dynamics and power structures in which these systems operate, rather than focusing solely on technical fixes.