The social life of algorithms: Shaping, and shaped by, our world
Informatics researcher Paul Dourish on how the algorithms that guide our social lives and organisation are themselves products of human social actions
Published 11 March 2016
Episode 363
We talk to informatics guru Professor Paul Dourish about how the algorithms that drive our technology influence our social lives and organisation, and are themselves evolving products of our social interactions.
“Lurking within algorithms, unknown to people and certainly not by design, can be all sorts of unconscious biases and discrimination that don’t necessarily reflect what we as a society want,” says Professor Dourish.
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