AIs are increasingly used to make decisions that have major impacts on people's lives. In this episode of Tech Gets Real, veteran technology journalist David Meyer discusses the risks, and the ways in which we can take back control.

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References for this episode:

Bias in facial recognition https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/unmasking-bias-facial-recognition-algorithms

Bias in speech recognition https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885230823000864

Research into recruitment screening bias https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/article/view/31748/33915

British regulators warning recruitment-tool makers https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/11/ico-intervention-into-ai-recruitment-tools-leads-to-better-data-protection-for-job-seekers/

Human Rights Watch on facial recognition and refugee kids https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/07/31/uk-plans-ai-experiment-on-children-seeking-asylum

European law on automated decision-making https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/

EU AI Act on high-risk AI systems https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/chapter/3/