The Machine's Perfect Alibi
We build systems to eliminate bias, yet their greatest utility may lie in how effectively they launder discrimination through algorithmic inscrutability. When machines become arbiters of human opportunity, do they truly remove prejudice, or merely transmute it into technical jargon and statistical correlations? The algorithmic laundering of bias offers a perfect sanctuary for those who seek the appearance of fairness whilst preserving the patterns of exclusion they ostensibly aimed to dismantle.