Kenneth Cukier
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76 appearances
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first heard Mar 2013
last heard Mar 2013
Kenneth Cukier’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I need to have the sanctity of my free will.
The answer, of course, is yes, but I would emphasize that that already happens today in a world of small data.
So an example is if you wanted to give loans to people and you use postal codes, it's not allowed in the United States to be the primary signal because that encodes race because certain races live in certain areas and others in other places.
Likewise, this already is a matter of law in the European Union not to have happen.
The insurance industry has looked at the statistics and found out that men get into more car accidents than women.
European law has said that you must charge the same premium, even though they recognize that the statistics, if you will, are sexist.
So I think that even in a big data world, we have the potential for this happening, but we also have to rely on our social values to prevent it from being enshrined in public policy.
Well, these gaps already exist.
There's a sanitation gap.
Yeah, maybe it'll get bigger.
If you look at the way that computing has evolved, it hasn't.
It's actually shrunk.
You see very high-end mobile phones in developing countries now.
They're increasing their penetration of technology at a faster rate than we could ever predict because the cost is just becoming so accessible.
So I don't think that big data is going to exacerbate these same divides.
Yes, but I'm not bothered by that because, first, the cost of collecting data is much lower and the tools are so much more accessible now that people in those very countries can start collecting the data and learning from it.
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