Mastodawn

Frank Pasquale Jan 28, 2024

“Source codes of government algorithms must be independently audited so that the accuracy of their predictions can be ascertained.
The state IT department denied our requests under the Right to Information Act to share the source code and the formats of the data used by Samagra Vedika to make decisions, saying the company had “rights over” them.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/1/24/how-an-algorithm-denied-food-to-thousands-of-poor-in-indias-telangana
#blackboxsociety

How an algorithm denied food to thousands of poor in India’s Telangana

It adopted AI in welfare schemes to weed out ineligible ones, but has wrongfully removed thousands of legitimate ones.

Al Jazeera

nuagezero Jan 18, 2021

Thinking Outside the Black-Box: The Case for “Algorithmic Sovereignty” in Social Media.

Urbano Reviglio et Claudio Agosti, (Social Media + Society, avril 2020)

#BlackBoxSociety #algorithmes #souveraineté #souveraineténumérique #boîtesnoires

https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120915613

nuagezero Jan 13, 2021

Shareable and un-sharable knowledge
by Mark Andrejevic

>The quest for understanding looks like an increasingly vexed one: why bother to dive down the rabbit hole of interpretation if the numbers can speak for themselves? As we attempt to keep pace with the speed of information, interpretation just slows us down. Who has time any more?

#ai #ia #BlackBoxSociety #boîtesnoires #algorithmes

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951720933917