{"id":1075,"date":"2015-05-12T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2015-05-12T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:44:48","slug":"accountable-algorithms-a-research-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/archives\/1075","title":{"rendered":"Accountable Algorithms: A Research Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(or, <strong><em>Caillou Sucks<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>What should people who are interested in <strong>accountability and algorithms<\/strong> be thinking about? Here is one answer: My eleven-minute\u00a0remarks are now online from a recent event\u00a0at NYU. I&#8217;ve edited them to intersperse my slides.<\/p>\n<p>This talk was partly motivated by <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@hannawallach\/big-data-machine-learning-and-the-social-sciences-927a8e20460d\">the ethics work being done in the machine learning community<\/a>. That is very exciting and interesting work and I love, love, love it. My remarks are an attempt\u00a0to think through the <strong>other things we might also need<\/strong> to do.\u00a0Let me know how to replace the &#8220;??&#8221; in my slides with something more meaningful!<\/p>\n<p>Preview: My remarks contain a minor attempt at a <a href=\"http:\/\/mcs.open.ac.uk\/mj665\/\">Michael Jackson<\/a> <strong>joke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Here is the video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rJfDKx2fjdE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rJfDKx2fjdE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of fantastic Social Media Collective people were at this conference &#8212; you can hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katecrawford.net\/\">Kate Crawford<\/a> in the opening remarks. \u00a0For <strong>more videos<\/strong> from the conference, see:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Algorithms and Accountability<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.nyu.edu\/centers\/ili\/algorithmsconference\">http:\/\/www.law.nyu.edu\/centers\/ili\/algorithmsconference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Joris van Hoboken, Helen Nissenbaum and Elana Zeide for organizing such a fab event.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you bought this 11-minute presentation you might also buy:<\/em>\u00a0<strong>Auditing Algorithms<\/strong>, a forthcoming workshop at Oxford.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auditingalgorithms.wordpress.com\">http:\/\/auditingalgorithms.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>This post was cross-posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediacollective.org\/2015\/05\/12\/a-research-agenda-for-accountable-algorithms\/\">The Social Media Collective<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(or, Caillou Sucks) What should people who are interested in accountability and algorithms be thinking about? 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