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algorithmic systems that reify essentialist social categories can be understood as when systems that classify a person’s membership in a social group based on narrow, socially constructed criteria that reinforce perceptions of human difference as inherent, static and seemingly natural... especially likely when ML models or human raters classify a person’s attributes – for instance, their gender, race, or sexual orientation – by making assumptions based on their physical appearance
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Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction
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