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Sexist snow plowing?\xa0Data that guide everything from snow removal schedules to heart research often fail to consider gender.\xa0In these cases, \u201creference man\u201d stands in for \u201caverage human.\u201d\xa0\xa0Human bias also infects artificial intelligence, with speech recognition triggered only by male voices and facial recognition that can\u2019t see black faces.\xa0We question the assumptions baked into these numbers and algorithms.\nGuests:\n\n\nCaroline Criado-Perez\xa0-\xa0Journalist and author of \u201cInvisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men\u201d\n\n\n Kade Crockford\xa0-\xa0Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts\n\n\nAmy Webb\xa0-\xa0Futurist, founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute, and author of \u201cThe Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and There Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity\u201d\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices