The Program on Data and Governance, a program of the Moritz College of Law and the Translational Data Analytics Institute, is proud to present the Distinguished Lecture on Big Data, Law & Policy.
The Algorithmic Lens - A world revealed and distorted
Speaker: Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign (CNTR), professor of Computer Science and Data Science at Brown University
Commentator: Bryan Weaver, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Ethics and Human Values, at The Ohio State University
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About the event
Our world today is filtered through the algorithmic lens - a vast assemblage of algorithmic tools and data that mediate our experience of life, work, and health. This lens reveals and distorts: it forces the world into machine-readable forms and, in doing so, renders some aspects sharper and makes others invisible. To render ourselves amenable to the algorithmic lens, we make choices that implicitly encode values and judgments. Deploying an algorithm starts a moral conversation you didn't know you were having.
In this talk, Professor Venkatasubramanian will unpack the elements of the algorithmic lens and seek to explore its limits. He will argue why it is important that we recognize the existence of the lens and study its limits carefully. Only in doing so can we begin to understand how to design systems that align with our goals and values.
