When you make a decision to opt for an automated process, to some extent you’re already by doing so compromising transparency. Or you could say it the other way around. It’s possible to argue that if you opt for extremely strict transparency regulation, you’re making a compromise in terms of automation.
The Emperor’s New Codes
Problematic Predictions: A Complex Question for Complex Systems
presented by Tal Zarsky
Occupy Algorithms: Will Algorithms Serve the 99%?
presented by Moritz Hardt
More than sort of a discussion of what’s been said so far this is a kind of research proposal of what I would like to see happening at the intersection of CS and this audience.
The Emperor’s New Codes – Reputation and Search Algorithms in the Finance Sector
presented by Frank Pasquale
The study of search, be it by people like David Stark in sociology, or economists or others, I tend to sort of see it in the tradition of a really rich socio-theoretical literature on the sociology of knowledge. And as a lawyer, I tend to complement that by thinking if there’s problems, maybe we can look to the history of communications law.