How Can We Hold Algorithms Accountable?

It is time to shift the focus from design to the impact of decision-making systems

The Unlikely Techie
Digital Diplomacy
Published in
4 min readMar 1, 2021

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We turn to technology to find solutions to our everyday problems and look up information — decision-making systems powered by algorithms. Algorithms are finite sets of instructions to perform computations. Kristan Lum and Rumman Chowdhury described “a…

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The Unlikely Techie
Digital Diplomacy

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