{"id":13604,"date":"2015-03-02T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13604"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:41","slug":"the-ethical-blindness-of-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-ethical-blindness-of-algorithms","title":{"rendered":"The ethical blindness of algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"author-name has-title\" href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/343750\/the-ethical-blindness-of-algorithms\/#\">Steve Jones, <\/a><span class=\"contributor-title\">Global vice president of big data, Capgemini<\/span> \u2014 Quartz<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"343750\" data-thread-id=\"164594\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">Can an algorithm be racist? It\u2019s a question that should be of concern for all data-driven organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"343750\" data-thread-id=\"164595\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">From analytics that help law enforcement predict future crimes, to retailers assessing the likelihood of female customers being pregnant (in the case of Target, without their knowledge), the increasing scale of computer cognizance is raising difficult ethical questions for business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"343750\" data-thread-id=\"164595\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/343750\/the-ethical-blindness-of-algorithms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jones, Global vice president of big data, Capgemini \u2014 Quartz Can an algorithm be racist? It\u2019s a question that should be of concern for all data-driven organizations. From analytics that help law enforcement predict future crimes, to retailers assessing the likelihood of female customers being pregnant (in the case of Target, without their knowledge), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64815,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions\/64815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}