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Introduction
Algorithmic decision-making, enabled by machine learning, is ubiquitous, powerful, often opaque, sometimes invisible, and, most importantly, consequential. Machine learning is embedded in many information tools and systems, central to numerous research methods, and pervasive in the applications of everyday life. Safiya Noble emphasizes the critical nature of artificial intelligence (AI) by observing that it will become “a major human rights issue in the twenty-first century.”1 As with nearly all aspects of contemporary life, AI is having a profound influence on research libraries, scholarly communication, and key functions of the academy…