Virginia Eubanks
Political scientist who writes on how automated eligibility, scoring and prediction systems fall on poor and working-class people in the United States.
PersonSources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Identity, university affiliation and authorship of Automating Inequality.
- University at Albany — Virginia Eubanks
Identity, university affiliation and authorship of Automating Inequality.
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American political scientist, at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her fieldwork method is to follow particular systems and the people subject to them rather than to argue from the design documents, which is why her cases are usable as evidence here.
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