Keynote: Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm
summary
Algorithms that infer pregnancy from purchase history lead to Target pregnancy scoring and stealthy diaper mailings after a man confronts a store; congratulatory emails hit grieving customers at Shutterfly; a memory engine surfaces a dead child in Facebook Year in Review; Fitbit exposes sexual logs; Uber’s God view reveals riders’ movements; facial models tag Dachau as playground and gorilla in Flickr mislabel Dachau; ad systems make black-identifying names ~25% more likely to see arrest-suggestive ads; a lender uses a 70,000-factor lending model combining keystroke and social signals — works technically but causes real harm.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:24Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm
- 1:40What Is an Algorithm
- 2:15Deep Learning
- 10:27Mark Zuckerberg
- 11:46Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty
- 18:53Google Adwords
- 20:36Twitter Accidental Algorithmic Run-Ins
- 22:44Facial Recognition
- 25:03Google Photos
- 34:05Consider Decisions Potential Impact on Others
- 39:22Data Transparency and Algorithmic Transparency
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