#optimizingforWhat

For those who missed the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University workshop on "Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society”

the video recordings can be found here:

Day 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hovy4qS0tbE

Day 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR5USgx9YgI

Well worth a watch!

@vdignum

#optimizingforWhat last session:
- many collectivist communities with individualist societies
- it is a dynamic world; things change always

Overall, my main takeaways:
- ethics is too vanilla!
- communicative #justice rather than #algorithmic optimising

And what I missed:
- the tradeoffs of optimising (more than the forms and approaches to optimising)

#optimizingforWhat Georgina Born: ethics is not enough, there are many other social and human issues that need consideration.

I love her statement: Ethics is a little too vanilla!

#AI #aiethics #ResponsibleAI

#optimizingforWhat

Day 2 Knight event “Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society”

Great point by Jason Burton on platform design: if we look at food choices, we see that (many) people will pay more, for example, for a product that is more expensive (Fairtrade coffee) or even more expensive and less tasty (healthy granola bar) because they appreciate that these are better for us in some way- it's not unreasonable to take the same expectation to online platforms

@vdignum

#optimizingforWhat Conflict starts long before violence. Ravi Iyer and @jonathanstray present design measures to deal with it in social media

11/n

#optimizingforWhat Seth Lazar: platforms shape communication by design, moderation and curation. Lead to affordances, demotion/amplification, and reach.
We need a positive goal to aim at to shape these pathologies

8/n