The Illusion Of Neutrality: How ‘Objective’ Algorithms Perpetuate Discrimination

Dishi, BBA LLB, Symbiosis Law School, Pune Introduction In 1936, the mathematician Alan Turing specified algorithms as determinate sequences of computational steps, mechanical procedures that progress toward logical conclusions with mathematical exactitude, insulated from subjective human judgment. This foundational characterization positioned algorithms as instruments of pure rationality, detached from the social contexts in which they would later operate. For decades, Western technological...