How Algorithms Decide Your Life
Five words have become the universal solvent of responsibility
Algorithms now determine credit scores, parole decisions, job applications, and medical diagnoses. When the algorithm is wrong, there is often no mechanism to appeal, no human to question, and no way to know it happened. This is the story of how we built machines to make life-altering decisions and designed them so that no one is accountable when they get it wrong.
One story, one sitting.
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