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Hannah Fry

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[Wikipedia] Hannah Mary Fry is a British mathematician, author and broadcaster. She is the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She was previously a P

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People are often quite lazy. We like taking the easy way out - we like handing over responsibility, we like being offered…

Being

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One of the first things I did when I finished my Ph.D. was work with the police to look at what happened…

City

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But as soon as Facebook decided that they wanted to become purveyors of news, suddenly you have these highly personalized newsfeeds where…

Everything

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The Gottman Institute's study about arguments in long-term relationships concludes that couples with the best chance at long-term success are the ones…

Best

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I think people have this hang-up from school that maths is this dusty old textbook that was finished hundreds of years ago,…

Find

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And anytime a programmer makes a decision about how to deal with data, how to average it or clean it, you're imparting…

Average

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But the threat of a pandemic is different from that of a nerve agent, in that a disease can spread uncontrollably, long…

First

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Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a…

Faith

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When designing algorithms as a business owner, your incentive is your profit, something for your business, it's not an incentive to maximise…

Business

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Every time you shop online, every time you sign up for a newsletter, or register on a website, or enquire about a…

Car

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No weather forecaster can tell you for sure when to wear a rain slicker, stock up on canned goods, or evacuate a…

Best

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But for me, true art can't be created by accident. There are boundaries to the reach of algorithms. Limits to what can…

Accident

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In medicine, you learn about ethics from day one. In mathematics, it's a bolt-on at best. It has to be there from…

Best

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I do think we're at a point in our history where almost all of the big, grand, challenges faced by the human…

Big

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In every community, there are a number of 'social super-spreaders' among us. Long-suspected and emphatically confirmed by our data, these are people…

Average person

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Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design…

Danger

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It's true that you can't take an individual rain droplet and say where it's come from or where it's going to end…

End

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The future doesn't just happen. We are building it, and we are building it all the time.

Building

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Every criminal-justice system has to find some kind of balance between protecting the rights of innocent people falsely accused of crimes and…

Balance

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Algorithms and data should support the human decision, not replace it.

Data

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I'm an academic. I did my PhD in fluid dynamics and now I work at the University College London in an interdisciplinary…

College

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What seems obvious to one person wouldn't occur to another. Your perspective is hard coded into the work that you create.

Create

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Once you see the problems that algorithms can introduce, people can be quick to want to throw them away altogether and think…

Better

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Technology on its own isn't good or or evil.

Evil

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We should actively be thinking about what our inventions would look like if exploited by someone with a less of a moral…

Better

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