On Facebook/Google antisemitic targeting, Russia ads: When I raised alarms in 2012, ppl INSISTED this tech would only empower the good guys.pic.twitter.com/MKLLduZFAj
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The stuff that keeps coming out isn't one-off errors here & there. It's structural. No easy solutions with just a bit more transparency etc.
I'm going to do the best I can this year to lay this out in long-form and in talks. I believe this is both important and deeply political.
I'm in NYC this week, for a TED talk—on surveillance authoritarianism! I know TED tends upbeat—but this is my third somewhat grim TED talk!
First was why digitally-fueled movements don't all convey the same threat to power. Second on bias/threats from machine learning! Now this.
I'm with your crazy. I like to think of this set of technologies as cognitive taxes. One people are unaware they are paying.
Agreed. The ability to shift blame away from decisions & decision makers to an "algorithm" that favors those who will benefit most.
That algorithm somehow seems inevitable and not the worst thing (no self interest) .. $1m question is how humans define a 'greater good'
unfortunately you're not crazy :(
it is in place already
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