Nick Diakopoulos » Algorithmic Accountability & Transparency
▻http://www.nickdiakopoulos.com/projects/algorithmic-accountability-reporting
Software and #algorithms have come to adjudicate an ever broader swath of our lives, including everything from search engine personalization and advertising systems, to teacher evaluation, banking and finance, political campaigns, and police surveillance. But these algorithms can make mistakes. They have biases. Yet they sit in opaque black boxes, their inner workings, their inner “thoughts” hidden behind layers of complexity. We need to get inside that black box, to understand how they may be exerting power on us, and to understand where they might be making unjust mistakes. This research tackles this issue and proposes a practical method based on #reverse_engineering that journalists can employ in the investigation of algorithms.
