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I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad

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I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad
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Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining livesWe like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong in the public system, alarms go off and someone takes responsibility or is held accountable if they do not. But in 2020 in Gothenburg, injustice arrived quietly, disguised as efficiency.For the first time, the city used an algorithm to allocate places in its schools.

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