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"There must be a new army of programmers who can question the intentions in the code. When our social and political adversaries are armed with algorithms, we, too, must take up the study of algorithms."

Good luck with that 'new army' thing.

You can hear the calls growing daily, in the EU, from Elon Musk, and from the political classes: "make the algorithms public."

Reality check, coming right up.




> Reality check, coming right up.

I agree it sounds hard, but why give up? Code is written by people, for people—the current unaccountability that these algorithms possess isn't part of their nature. It's a choice that people have made, and in the future, people can choose—or be forced to choose—differently.




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