algorithm ethics: the inevitable subjective judgments in analytics
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ALGORITHM ETHICSMajken Sander, Joerg Blumtritt
@majsander @jbenno
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def eratosthenes(n): multiples = [] for i in xrange(2, n+1): if i not in multiples: print i for j in xrange(i*i, n+1, i): multiples.append(j)
Algorithms
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4 Ethics Value Judgments
What you see is… what you expect
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10 ‘Most(ly) true’
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• no-fly example
No flight?
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LOGIC AI VS. PROBABILISTIC AI
Probabilistic is the new logic
13 Algorithmic Information
14 Algorithmic Death
Algorithmic Self
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Mistakes like a bounced check or a small overdraft have effectively blacklisted more than a million low-income Americans from the mainstream financial system for as long as seven years as a result of little-known private databases that are used by the nation’s major banks. Algorithmic Valuation
17 The Quantified Self
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Majken Sander@majsander
Joerg Blumtritt@jbenno