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"We TOLD you it was hard." "Yeah, but now that I'VE tried, we KNOW it's hard."
A little under five years ago, I got angry about a piece of fake information, and I decided to do something about it. I was reading a recipe in the New York Times, and the recipe told me, as many, many recipes had told me before, that it would take about 10 minutes of cooking to caramelize onions.
Algorithmic systems have a way of making mistakes or leading to undesired consequences. Here are five principles to help technologists deal with that.
How algorithmic models screw up what they claim to measure.
\reading Weapons of Math Destruction\
The language of the internet doesn't follow the rules of English.
Amazon bills itself as “Earth’s most customer-centric company.” Yet its algorithm is hiding the best deal from many customers.
This list is an attempt to collect and categorize a growing critical literature on algorithms as social concerns. The work included spans sociology, anthropology, science and technology studies, ge…
Humans have ingrained unconscious biases. So do the algorithms they create.
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, art, and higher education
The Eric Loomis Case and Predictive Crime Assessments: When Algorithms Take the Stand - The Atlantic
A case soon to be decided by the Wisconsin Supreme Court considers algorithms' proper role in the courtroom—and beyond.
We seem to be idolizing algorithms, imagining they are more objective than their creators.
The controversy about the human curators behind Facebook Trends has grown, since the allegations made last week by Gizmodo. Besides being a major headache for Facebook, it has helped prod a growing…
What you see on the social media giant is based on an algorithm. It’s anything but neutral.
There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.