#3 - The Potential Pitfalls of Algorithms

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Recorded10 Mar 2021

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With Prof Dirk Hovy, whose research focuses on computational social science. Our life is increasingly influenced by algorithms, which decide not just what comes on top of every Google search but also many other things you don't even know. An algorithm is neither good nor bad in itself, but telling a machine how to perform certain functions is riddled with pitfalls which can result in very undesirable consequences.

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