For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...
The Most Likely Machine, created by design studio Artefact, aims to improve kids’ digital literacy. It’s a winner in the 2021 Innovation by Design Awards. It’s no secret that algorithms are incredibly ...
Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...