How Should We Govern the Algorithm?

Civics 101

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History, Government, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Machine learning is being used in police precincts, schools, courts and elsewhere across the country to help us make decisions. Using data about us, algorithms can do almost instantly what it would take human beings both time and money to do. Cheaper, faster, more efficient and potentially more accurate -- but should we be doing it? How should we be using it? And what about our privacy and our rights? Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, is our guide to the new world order. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Civics 101,
0:02.8	101, it's Hannah here.
0:04.0	It's Nick here.
0:05.0	And for now, at least, you are listening to our actual human voices,
0:10.0	and not the machine that learned how to sound like us for now.
0:15.0	Hannah, that's too scary.
0:18.0	Nick, we are one predictive algorithm from being out of a job my friend.
0:23.0	Well I'd like to see a machine engage in the kind of chaos I'm capable of McCarthy.
0:28.0	You think a machine could sing the score of the music man in a Scottish accent?
0:33.0	You might just see the day.
0:36.0	Oh, fate, my friend, taking any pool table ever hope to compete with a gold trombone.
0:40.0	All right, so today we are asking what the machines are up to and why that matters in America.
0:47.0	Artificial Intelligence is now everywhere from schools to work
0:56.6	but now the highest court in the land is suggesting it could play a role even in
1:00.6	our criminal justice.
1:01.6	Board of Police Commissioners is weighing in on the controversial facial recognition software at the center of a recent lawsuit.
1:07.0	A number of software programs used in hospitals across the country are powered by algorithms with racial biases.
1:14.8	England, Wales and Northern Ireland have all announced that A-Level and GCSE results
1:19.3	will now be based on teacher assessments rather than grades generated by computer modeling.
1:24.3	Employers are then using AI software to analyze candidates' facial expressions in their
1:29.7	recorded answers.
1:30.9	A candidate who looks off up into the distance might have a propensity to lie.
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