The HBS hosts discuss the pervasiveness and perversity of algorithms in our lives.
We don’t need to worry about robots becoming more like us, we need to worry about us becoming more like robots! In this episode, The HBS hosts discuss algorithms. Algorithms measure, and increasingly influence/determine, our behaviors. Yet, most people don’t know or understand what an algorithm is! Algorithms are essential to the logic of late capitalism and people need to understand them in order to work toward more ethical AI.
- Jiminy Glick, the Martin Short Character
- Brother Theodore
- Kathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction
- The music disvocery Shazam
- Silicon Valley, Season 4, episode 4 dealing with the app “SeeFood”
- Slate Money Goes to the Movies podcast with Kathy O’Neil
- The COMPAS algorithm and ProPublica’s analysis
- Max Weber, “Bureaucracy” and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- The problems with PredPol’s algorithm
- *The Joy of Cooking
- The Ethical Algorithm by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth
- Algorithm Audits
- The Free Software Movement
- Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society
- Pandora’s “Music Genome Project
- Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
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