Against Bias: How Computing Cultures Manufacture Disengagement

A rare look into the making of algorithmic surveillance—and how algorithmic harm happens.

How do computer scientists negotiate the thorny political issues their work is involved in—such as state violence, racial profiling, or the deskilling of labor—when they make surveillance technology? Examining how disciplinary conventions and larger social forces shape how computer scientists think, Against Bias by Norma Möllers diagnoses a deeply rooted culture of disengagement in computer science, one...