It's so easy to cheat with technology that even judges are doing it Torsten Bell

Remember when loads of academics were confidently predicting that technology, from robots to AI, was about to destroy all our jobs? We went into Covid with record employment before the pandemic, not the robots, knocked a chunk of people out of the workforce. In fact, technology has done something almost worse: giving academics a whole new job producing studies showing how easily technology affects us even on important judgments, from hiring to court cases. Two came across my desk last week highlighting the danger. The first paper turns the tables on the trend for job applicants to be screened by algorithms.