Machine Learning Algorithms - Where is the democratic accountability?

10/09/2020 11 min
Machine Learning Algorithms - Where is the democratic accountability?

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Episode Synopsis

The new generation of machine-learning decision-making computer algorithms are proliferating - but where is public accountability? And what is 'machine-learning' anyway? Nick explores this brave new world starting with a fiasco in UK education when such an algorithm wrecked student chances of making it to University. Nick will also reveal how he is coding machine-learning algorithms himself.