It’s not just A-levels – algorithms have a nightmarish new power over our lives

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It’s not just A-levels – algorithms have a nightmarish new power over our lives
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The problems with this kind of decision-making are clear, yet such methods are increasingly used in opaque and frightening ways, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Have you ever had a dream in which you are about to sit your final exams and you suddenly realise you did not do any prep and are going to fail? I have that anxiety dream a lot , despite having left school a million years ago. And I am not the only one: it is a surprisingly common phenomenon.

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