{"id":5227,"date":"2017-12-04T15:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2017-12-04T15:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:35:01","slug":"appearance-on-the-you-are-not-so-smart-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=5227","title":{"rendered":"Appearance on the You Are Not So Smart Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I had a conversation with<span class=\"posted-by\"><span class=\"author vcard\"> <a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/author\/davidmcraney\/\">David McRaney<\/a> of the You Are Not So Smart podcast, for his episode on <a href=\"https:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/2017\/11\/20\/yanss-115-how-we-transferred-our-biases-into-our-machines-and-what-we-can-do-about-it\/\">Machine Bias<\/a>. As he says on the blog:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now that algorithms are everywhere, helping us to both run and make sense of the world, a strange question has emerged among artificial intelligence researchers: When is it ok to predict the future based on the past?\u00a0When is it ok to be biased?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want a machine-learning algorithm to learn what tumors looked like in the past, and I want it to become biased toward selecting those kind of tumors in the future,\u201d explains philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beforetheabstract.com\/2017\/11\/15\/world-philosophy-day-part-3\/\">Shannon Vallor<\/a> at Santa Clara University. \u00a0\u201cBut I don\u2019t want a machine-learning algorithm to learn what successful engineers and doctors looked like in the past and then become biased toward selecting those kinds of people when sorting and ranking resumes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We talk about this,\u00a0 sentencing algorithms, the notion of how to raise and teach our digital offspring, and more. You can listen to all it here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/358297613&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/youarenotsosmart.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/115-machine-bias-2.mp3\">Direct Link to the Mp3 Here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>If and when it gets a transcript, I will update this post with a link to that.<\/p>\n<p>Until Next Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I had a conversation with David McRaney of the You Are Not So Smart podcast, for his episode on Machine Bias. As he says on the blog: Now that algorithms are everywhere, helping us to both run and make sense of the world, a strange question has emerged among artificial intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,1081,1108,959,1227,73,1198,101,1231,278,1112,493,494,495,944,560,1026,1080,1229,1230,1228,1030,1232],"class_list":["post-5227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-future-worth-thinking-about","tag-algorithmic-bias","tag-algorithmic-intelligence","tag-algorithmic-systems","tag-alistair-croll","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-audio","tag-bias","tag-david-mcraney","tag-ethics","tag-implicit-bias","tag-machine-ethics","tag-machine-intelligence","tag-machine-learning","tag-my-voice","tag-my-words","tag-philosophy-of-technology","tag-podcasts","tag-science-and-technology-studies","tag-science-technology-and-society","tag-shannon-vallor","tag-technological-ethics","tag-you-are-not-so-smart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WByP-1mj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5316,"url":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=5316","url_meta":{"origin":5227,"position":0},"title":"My Appearance on The Machine Ethics Podcast&#8217;s A.I. 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