Algorithmic Transparency Quotes

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

We urgently need more due process with the algorithmic systems influencing our lives. If you are given a score that jeopardizes your ability to get a job, housing, or education, you should have the right to see that data, know how it was generated, and be able to correct errors and contest the decision.

Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.

A deep-learning system doesn't have any explanatory power.

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 with a mathematical aura that it's perfect and it doesn't require further vetting. Of course, we never have that assumption with other kinds of technology.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

This is a political fight. We need to demand accountability for our algorithmic overlords.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.