There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for..

People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trus….

There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because it's shiny new technology ….

I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledgin….

Because of my experience in Occupy, instead of asking the question, "Who will benefit from this system I'm implementing with the data?" I started to ….

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it..

It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get….

The public trusts big data way too much..

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objec….

I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible..

We don't let a car company just throw out a car and start driving it around without checking that the wheels are fastened on. We know that would resu….

Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination..

I think there's inherently an issue that models will literally never be able to handle, which is that when somebody comes along with a new way of doi….

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is….

I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that t….

When people are not given an option by some secret scoring system, it's very hard to complain, so they often don't even know that they've been victim….

So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in terms of money. Or, if not money, then, ….

Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black ….

Micro-targeting is the ability for a campaign to profile you, to know much more about you than you know about it, and then to choose exactly what to ….

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers..

Especially from my experience as a quant in a hedge fund - I naively went in there thinking that I would be making the market more efficient and then….