I am an algorithm - workshop on understanding bias in coding
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The workshop led by Alastair Somerville focuses on understanding algorithms, their structure, and their impact on human decision-making. It highlights the potential problems posed by algorithms, such as loss of human agency and transparency issues, while suggesting methods for fostering accountability and critical thinking. Participants are encouraged to analyze their interactions with algorithms and consider the intentions behind their design.
I am an algorithm - workshop on understanding bias in coding
- 1. I am an algorithm Understanding bias in coding
- 4. Safety
- 6. To understand – what is an Algorithm –why it creates problems –how can we react
- 10. It’s a recipe
- 11. Quick exercise
- 12. Write down how to make a pot of coffee
- 13. Making coffee in a pot: 1. Get a pot, the size depends on home many people you are making the coffee for. 2. Pour water into the pot until the pot is almost filled with water. 3. Put the pot on the stove an turn the stove on. 4. Let the water in the pot boil for five minutes. 5. After that you get the can that contains the coffee grains and put scoops of coffee in the boiling pot.(the amount of scoops you put may vary depending on how many people you are making the coffee for). 6. You let the pot now containing the boiled hot water and coffee grains boil for another minute. 7. You turn off the stove and remove the pot from the stove. 8. You take out another pot for the next procedure. 9. You pour the water and the coffee grains that the first pot contain into a percolator and into the second pot. 10. Finally you you pour the substance into a cup and add as many sugars, creme, and milk as you like and you enjoy it.
- 14. It’s a way of recording and remembering tasks over time and amongst people
- 16. Nigella Lawson’s cookbooks will not destroy human society
- 18. Automation
- 20. Bad if you are a barista
- 22. Autonomy
- 24. Decision making
- 26. Judgements
- 27. Drones
- 29. Do NOT operate Algorithm without Human supervision
- 30. Bit too far
- 31. Algorithms are
- 33. Algorithms are written recipes for decision making
- 34. Algorithms are written recipes for semi- autonomous decision making
- 36. What algorithms worry you now in your life?
- 39. The Fears
- 40. Autonomy of machine reduces agency of human
- 42. The Black Box Society Frank Pasquale
- 47. The box is opaque to human understanding...
- 48. ...but the contents are created by humans
- 49. It is intelligible but not accessible
- 50. Exercise
- 52. Try to understand – what data goes in – what comes out – what do Amazon put in the box
- 53. Need a framework
- 54. What can we do?
- 56. Political
- 61. Code is law Lawrence Lessig
- 63. Long term change
- 64. Personal
- 69. ALGORITHMIC ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING ON THE INVESTIGATION OF BLACK BOXES NICHOLAS DIAKOPOULOS, PH.D.
- 81. Beware
- 82. Correlation does not imply causation, nor intent on the part of the designer
- 85. Donations Proof of data More data
- 89. The algorithm adapts and that change is visible
- 91. What changes what appears on the Homepage?
- 92. Be mindful of your digital places
- 93. Take screenshots
- 95. Compare your page to a friend’s page
- 96. Algorithms are not just about you
- 97. The trick is in our humanity
- 98. Algorithms are coded by humans
- 99. Understand the coder not the code
- 100. A Toolkit
- 101. Think backwards Use correlation carefully Make comparisons over time Imagine what the coder wants Talk to your friends
- 102. Think backwards Use correlation carefully Make comparisons over time Imagine what the coder wants Talk to your friends
- 103. Think backwards Use correlation carefully Make comparisons over time Imagine what the coder wants Talk to your friends
- 104. Think backwards Use correlation carefully Make comparisons over time Imagine what the coder wants Talk to your friends
- 105. Think backwards Use correlation carefully Make comparisons over time Imagine what the coder wants Talk to your friends
- 106. Finishing up
- 107. What is an Algorithm Why it creates problems How can we react
- 108. What
- 109. Algorithms are written recipes for semi- autonomous decision making
- 110. Why
- 113. How
- 114. Short term: use social Long term: use political
- 115. Thank you
- 116. Q&A