[kictanet] How-biased-computer-engineers-affect-lives/

[Dennis Memusi]

This is very true Wangari.

It is critical to evaluate the impact of algorithm-driven decision making
in public policy settings.

See related article

https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/the-algorithms-arent-biased-we-are-a691f5f6f6f2
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Dennis Sankale
Information Systems and Security Analyst


On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:59 PM WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>
>
> https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/How-biased-computer-engineers-affect-lives/440808-4760898-q1f0ax/index.html
>
> Cathy O’Neil, a bestselling author and a data scientist appropriately
> refers to biased computer systems as “weapons of math destruction”, because
> they use mathematical algorithms to ruin lives by placing them in buckets
> that they don’t belong.
>
> Of course no system can be perfect and that’s why regularly auditing and
> updating them should be part of a system engineer’s modus operandi.
>
>
>
> Be blessed.
> Regards/Wangari
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