Everything People : A New Economic System for our Future

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The makers of these algorithms and the collectors of the data used to test and prime them have nowhere near a comprehensive understanding of culture, values, and diversity. But there will be negative changes: 1) There will be an increased speed of interactions and volume of information processed—everything will get faster. The other is that the datasets to which algorithms are applied have their own limits and deficiencies.

Then, keeping all that learning at hand, the experts need to soberly assess the benefits and deficits or risks the algorithms create. The growth of human benefits of machine intelligence will be most constrained by our collective competencies to design and interact effectively with machines. Increasingly we are a society that takes its life direction from the palm of our hands – our smartphones. Others, like Harvard’s Shoshana Zuboff, describe the emergence of “surveillance capitalism” that organizes economic behavior in an “information civilization.At minimum, institutions that have broad societal impact would need to disclose the input variables used, how they influence the outcome and be subject to review, not just individual record corrections. So, Facebook then turned the job over to algorithms only to find that they could not discern real news from fake news. The people writing algorithms, even those grounded in data, are a non-representative subset of the population. Algorithms can crunch databases quickly enough to alleviate some of the red tape and bureaucracy that currently slows progress down.

Universities must redouble their efforts not only to recruit a diverse body of students –administrators and faculty must support them through to graduation. Algorithmic accountability is a big-tent project, requiring the skills of theorists and practitioners, lawyers, social scientists, journalists, and others. It’s also the input that makes it possible for leaders to create the conditions for employees to fully realize their own capacity and power. Michigan is now leading the way, strengthening the state Lead and Copper Rule to require that all lead service lines be replaced within 20 years, among other provisions.These respondents argued that humans are considered to be an “input” to the process and they are not seen as real, thinking, feeling, changing beings. The University of Nebraska does not discriminate based on race, color, ethnic Along with other pre-programmed training datasets, our personal data is being used to help machines make decisions. Even more alarming were findings reported in September 2015 by Flint pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha: The incidence of elevated blood-lead levels in children citywide had nearly doubled since 2014—and nearly tripled in certain neighborhoods. Although the river water was highly corrosive, Flint officials failed to treat it, and lead leached out from aging pipes into thousands of homes.