Chapter 32 · Forty minutes after applying

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In the brief edition: Whether an AI decided about you

What was read, and when

• The exchange was recorded on 29 September 2026: one model by its API, the vendor's settings left as they came, no system prompt, a single turn, the reply reproduced whole. The letter it was asked about is this book's own.
• Read on 29 September 2026: ProPublica's pages of 23 May 2016, "Machine Bias" and "How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm"; the Reuters report of 10 October 2018 on the recruiting tool; the Indiana Supreme Court's opinion of 22 March 2012; the California State University Academic Senate's resolution AS-3695-24/AA of 17 May 2024; pages 298 to 314 of UNESCO's Module 11 (2021); New York City's page on its hiring-tools law, Local Law 144 of 2021, with the rule it adopted (enforcement from 5 July 2023).
• The book: Automating Inequality (St. Martin's Press, 2017), its introduction, "Red Flags", and chapter 2, "Automating Eligibility in the Heartland". The ebook read prints no page numbers.
• Table 32.1: UNESCO's Module 11, Table 11.1, pp. 301-303, read on the page images; the first row and the cells of what would show it, who holds it and what it does not show are this book's.

The sources are printed in the full edition, chapter by chapter, with the day each was read. This page prints the same list.

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