--- description: Williams is Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She’s the author of Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, published with Stanford University Press title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Apryl Williams ## Apryl Williams Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Williams is Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She’s the author of [_Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating_](https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33064), published with Stanford University Press ## Apryl Williams Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Feb 14, 2024 ### [When Love and the Algorithm Don’t Mix](https://time.com/6694129/dating-app-inequality-essay/) Dating app algorithms are working for the status quo, writes Apryl Williams. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/apryl-williams/","name":"Apryl Williams"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/apryl-williams/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/apryl-williams/"},"name":"Apryl Williams","jobTitle":null,"description":"Williams is Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She’s the author of Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, published with Stanford University Press","url":"https://time.com/author/apryl-williams/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```