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<div> One of the things I think a lot about is how statistics and quantitative methods can be used as tools for justice instead of continued to be used as tools for oppression. This era of the newness of big data is a great time to be thinking about this.
My reading on all this has included, of course, work on algorithms and bias. I've come across some talks by folks that I thought might be of interest to folks interested in data and ethics and intellectual freedom. </div>
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<div><b>Cathy O'Neil, author of "Weapons of Math Destruction" </b></div>
<div>TED Talk: "The era of blind faith in big data must end" - 2017</div>
<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2u_eHHzRto" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2u_eHHzRto</a></div>
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insurance and much more -- but they don't automatically make things fair. Mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil coined a term for algorithms that are secret, important and harmful: "weapons of math destruction." Learn more about the hidden agendas
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<font size="2">Algorithms don't make things fair if you just blithely, </font><span style="font-size: small;">blindly apply algorithms. They repeat our past</span><span style="font-size: small;"> practices, our patterns. They automate the status quo.</span></p>
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<div><font color="#0a0a0a" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Safiya Noble, Assistant Prof in the Department of Information Studies at
UCLA, "Challenging the algorithms of oppression"</b> - 2016</span></font></div>
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our information landscape.</span></div>
<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVZozEEWlE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVZozEEWlE</a></div>
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<div><b>Joi Ito, manager of MIT's Media Lab</b></div>
<div>On Ammanpour & Co: Walter Isaacson sits down with Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, to discuss some of the most complex moral problems facing tech innovators. -12 March 2019</div>
<div><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/joi-ito-of-mit-discusses-complex-moral-issues-in-new-tech/" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/joi-ito-of-mit-discusses-complex-moral-issues-in-new-tech/</a></div>
<div>"<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">If your data is racist then your output will be racist. Society is racist, so by definition our algorithms will be racist.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> "</span></div>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; line-height:normal"><font size="2">Algorithms don't make things fair if you just blithely, </font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; line-height:normal"><font size="2"> blindly apply algorithms. They repeat our past </font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; line-height:normal"><font size="2"> practices, our patterns. They automate the status quo.</font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; line-height:normal"><font size="2"> ~Cathy ONeil, TED2017</font></p>
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