106 Are Algorithms Turning us all into Bigots? | Dr Robert Elliott Smith

Curiosityness

Travis DeRose

History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

I love learning about new tech and how it can enhance our lives! But perhaps we are beginning to place too much confidence and reliance on things like AI and algorithms.

In this episode I'm joined by Dr Robert Elliott Smith, author of the book, Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All.

Tune in to learn…

-About the role algorithms play in the divisiveness of social media;

-How algorithms may be more entrenched in your life than you realize;

-If algorithms are prejudiced;

-Why we are seeing increasing incidences of machine bigotry, greed, segregation and mass coercion;

-If we can replicate human intelligence with artificial intelligence;

-& so much more!

Grab a copy of Rage Inside the Machine...

At https://www.rageinsidethemachine.com

On Indiebound at https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781472963888

On Amazon at https://amzn.to/2Pv0eml (affiliate link)

Find Dr Robert Elliott Smith on Twitter: @DrRESmith

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0:00.0	A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview.
0:08.0	Hello, and welcome to the 106th episode of Curiosityness.
0:13.1	I am Travis DeRose, the host, the guy you're listening to, and this episode, we're talking about algorithms.
0:20.4	That's right. You've heard the term it's everywhere it's
0:23.5	like a buzzword sort of now but what the hell is even is an algorithm what do they do are they good
0:28.7	are they bad or we're going to find out that's why i have on robert elliott smith as my guest today
0:35.8	he is the author of a book called Rage Inside the Machine,
0:39.3	The Prejudice of Algorithms and How to Stop the Internet from Making Bigots of Us All.
0:45.1	Pretty scary title. Pretty fun title, too. But it's a good episode. I think it's really
0:51.8	important. I think this is something that pretty much every one of us has thought about. Something, you know, are we being manipulated by algorithms?
1:01.3	Are they good? Are they bad? I think you might be surprised, too, by some of these examples that
1:08.1	Rob gives us about how entrenched algorithms are in our life,
1:14.4	some crazy examples of them gone wrong.
1:18.2	And then we kind of dig into, you know, why algorithms maybe are not great,
1:23.5	why they are great sometimes, you know, how to potentially fix this, how to navigate through the future.
1:29.9	And then social media algorithms are a big one.
1:32.6	I think that most people think about that and it affects a lot of people specifically on, you know, what Facebook is serving you up based on their algorithm and what they think about you.
1:42.1	So, all right, I'm going to stop yammering here.
1:44.8	Let's get to the episode number 106 with Robert Elliott Smith.
1:51.9	All right. We're going. How are you doing, Rob?
1:54.1	I haven't been pretty good. Good to meet you, man. Glad you. Thanks for coming on.
1:57.6	Excited to talk because this has been, honestly, when I saw your book, it was like, I was kind of like, hell yeah, let's, I'm so glad there's a book to read about this because it's something that I've been thinking about for a while, but I've never really, you know, dove into of like, you know, I know what an algorithm is, sort of. Everyone's kind of heard the term, right? It's tossed
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