Meredith Broussard is unusually well placed to dissect the ongoing hype around AI. One thing that was really important to me in thinking through the interplay between sociology and technology was a conversation that I had a few years ago with Jeff Lane, who is a sociologist and ethnographer [as an associate professor at Rutgers School of Information]. Has this system been evaluated for bias based on gender, based on ability, based on race? Most of the time the answer is no, and that needs to change