The promoters of big data would like us to believe that behind the lines of code and vast databases lie objective and universal insights into patterns of human behavior, be it consumer spending, criminal or terrorist acts, healthy habits, or… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
We need to be vigilant about how we design and train these machine-learning systems, or we will see ingrained forms of bias built into… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real. — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
People think 'big data' avoids the problem of discrimination because you are dealing with big data sets, but, in fact, big data is being… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves. — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
We urgently need more due process with the algorithmic systems influencing our lives. If you are given a score that jeopardizes your ability to… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
Sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many 'intelligent' systems that shape… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new worlds from… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
The amount of money and industrial energy that has been put into accelerating AI code has meant that there hasn't been as much energy… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it to who… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
