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How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying?

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 17 2017, @03:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the swear-on-a-stack-of-K&Rs dept.

canopic jug writes:

At The Guardian, Cathy O'Neil writes about why algorithms can be wrong. She classifies the reasons into four categories on a spectrum ranging from unintential errors to outright malfeasance. As algorithms now make a large portion of the decisions affecting our lives, scrutiny is ever more important and she provides multiple examples in each category of their impact.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 17 2017, @08:30PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday July 17 2017, @08:30PM (#540542) Homepage Journal

    4/10

    Concise, quick, attacked on multiple fronts, and got a reply. Minus three points for lack of style, subtlety, and failure to get a reply to anything you actually said. Minus a further three mastery points that would have been awarded for expertly integrating combinations of the previous.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @09:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @09:33PM (#540580)

    Meh

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @09:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @09:49PM (#540594)

    My question still stand and no one has given me a valid response why should comp sci and math people be allowed out of there parents basement without supervision of people with social skills and empathy ?