The Algorithms Controlling Our World #8
Disconnected
English - October 20, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBSociety & Culture Technology society culture social media technology facebook apple google politics algorithm human behaviour Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We’re being scored with secret formulas we don’t understand, with no course for appeal if things don’t go our way.
Data scientists are writing code that learns from our every move, click, post and payment, and it’s tangibly changing the future of our tech-driven world.
One the one hand, we’re served posts tailored to preferences we may not know we had. On the other hand, mortgages, insurance, jail sentences and job interviews are increasingly at the mercy of code - and it’s not free from bias…
In this week’s Disconnected, we’re uncovering the fundamental issues and historical bias that permeate the systems controlling what you can and can’t do, and why we should be demanding accountability from the tech titans behind it all.
This episode of Disconnected covers:
How algorithms correlate and analyse your every moveThe 2 key ingredients behind every predictive algorithmWho loses out when unconscious biases are carried forward in dataLinks and references at: https://disconnectedpodcast.com/