<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">This is very true Wangari.<div><br></div><div>It is critical to evaluate the impact of algorithm-driven decision making in public policy settings.</div><div><br></div><div>See related article</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/the-algorithms-arent-biased-we-are-a691f5f6f6f2">https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/the-algorithms-arent-biased-we-are-a691f5f6f6f2</a><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(68,68,68);letter-spacing:normal;width:400px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0px 0px 6px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,147,206);width:259px"><span style="font-weight:bold">-- <br><br>Dennis Sankale</span> <span style="color:rgb(135,135,135);font-size:10pt"><span><br>Information Systems and Security Analyst</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:59 PM WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/How-biased-computer-engineers-affect-lives/440808-4760898-q1f0ax/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/How-biased-computer-engineers-affect-lives/440808-4760898-q1f0ax/index.html</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Be blessed.</div><div dir="auto">Regards/Wangari</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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