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Shakir Mohamed

Shakir Mohamed is Research Scientist at DeepMind, Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of University College London. Find him on Twitter @shakir_za.

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Algorithmic oppression is rooted in the colonial project.
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