ALGORITHM ETHICS

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Majken Sander, Joerg Blumtritt

@majsander @jbenno

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def eratosthenes(n):multiples = []for i in xrange(2, n+1):

if i not in multiples:print ifor j in xrange(i*i, n+1, i):

multiples.append(j)

Algorithms

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Ethics

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Ethics Value Judgments

What you see is… what you expect

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‘Most(ly) true’

• no-fly example

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No flight?

LOGIC AI VS. PROBABILISTIC AI

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Probabilistic is the new logic

13Algorithmic Information

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Algorithmic Death

Algorithmic Self

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Mistakes like a bounced check or a small overdraft have effectively blacklisted more than a million low-income Americans from the mainstream financial system for as long as seven years as a result of little-known private databases that are used by the nation’s major banks.Algorithmic Valuation

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The Quantified Self

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Majken Sander

@majsander

Joerg Blumtritt

@jbenno