The Invisible Code

The algorithm did not see Marcus. It saw a zip code, a credit score, and a gap in employment that corresponded with the years he spent in federal prison. It saw enough to decline the application. It did not see enough to know why.
In The Invisible Code, Dr. Patrick Fisher — Licensed Professional Counselor, researcher, and founder of TheraPetic Solutions Inc. — examines the three codes that govern invisible lives: the programming code that automates decisions about housing, employment, healthcare, and criminal justice; the legal code that was written to protect people but fails to account for algorithmic bias; and the unwritten code — the social assumptions embedded in data sets, training models, and institutional defaults that determine who gets seen and who gets sorted.
Through composite characters drawn from clinical practice and federal prison consulting, Fisher documents the human consequences of automated decision-making: the tenant denied housing by a screening algorithm that flagged a decades-old misdemeanor; the veteran whose disability claim was deprioritized by a predictive model; the mother whose child welfare case was scored by a tool she never knew existed; and the twelve-year-old whose ADHD and a single school suspension were enough for an algorithm to classify him as high-risk.
These are not extraordinary stories. They are ordinary — happening every day, in every city, to people who never learn that a machine made the decision that changed their lives.

Book 7 of The Invisible Series by Patrick Fisher, PhD.

Published by TheraPetic Solutions Inc.

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