"The Moral Economy of Tech" - talk by Maciej Cegłowski

This week's story in Wired is worth thinking about. "The Suspicion Machine" is an algorithm used by the city of Rotterdam to determine whether a person poses a risk of benefit fraud. To simplify: it's an automated decision-making process which takes into account several facts about a person, and then assigns a score to each of these facts. If the score reaches a certain level, that person may become the target of a fraud investigation. Earlier on in the week, the story made me furious. But it...