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#AI #RiskAssessment #WeaponsOfMathDestruction

Jeg blev lige mindet om en rapport, jeg skrev på ITU, på kurset "Digitalisation and Public Sector Transformation": "Preparing for a potential future of using algorithms in case decision work at Ankestyrelsen". Jeg arbejdede der og fulgte en konkurrence, de holdt, hvor medarbejdere kunne foreslå ideer til sagsbehandling vha. machine learning.

Hele rapporten kan læses her: https://www.hartmannconsulting.dk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BEBE_Digitalisation-and-Public-Sector_FINAL.pdf

On my reading list - 3 books on understanding and resisting #Enshittification, but it's all such hard work😣

#AlgorithmsOfResistance

#AlgortithmsOfOppression

#WeaponsOfMathDestruction

- https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547420/algorithms-of-resistance/

- https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/

- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/304513/weapons-of-math-destruction-by-oneil-cathy/9780141985411

@emdalton

Thank you Elizabeth, The tag #WeaponsOfMathDestruction. shows up some interesting comments on it.

I #AmReading #WeaponsOfMathDestruction.

Rarely a book pisses me off so much, especially considering how much worse everything is 7 years later.

#bookstodon #mastolibri #libri

Recently when I deleted my bird-site profile, I noticed that in the settings, it was recorded as "Gender - Male".

I never set my gender in such profiles - after all, my avatar is a coffee cup, coffee is surely gender-neutral.

So it makes me think the algorithm looked at posts re #coffee and #science and said -> male.

Problematic enough, but then it put the faulty logic straight into the settings. Yes I can correct it (if necessary) but that is not the point.
#WeaponsofMathDestruction

From Australia to the United States, welfare fraud algorithms sold on claims that they make governments more efficient have made people’s lives worse.

In the Netherlands, Rotterdam’s algorithmic troubles have run in parallel with a nationwide machine learning scandal.

https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-algorithms-discrimination/

#weaponsOfMathDestruction

Em algo completamente aleatório... Passei no 3º Semestre da UniVESP e coim isso fechei as matérias de eixo... Agora vamos em direção à Ciência de Dados e estudar como Desarmar os Algoritmos de Destruição em Massa #cienciaDeDados #AlgoritmosDeDestruicaoEmMassa #weaponsOfMathDestruction

Another day of discussion how badly data can be abused, another day of me recommending Cathy O'Neil's book. #WeaponsofMathDestruction #privacy #bigdata #dataprotection

Many talk about the right to freedom of speech online, but rarely do discussions delve a layer deeper into the idea of the "right to reach". I've lately taken to analogizing the artificial reach of bots and partisan disinformation and labeled the idea social media ma

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/05/fake-news-is-solvable-the-rockefeller-foundation/

#Journalism #Listen #Science #SocialStream #fakenews #freedomofspeech #righttoreach #socialmediamachineguns #WeaponsofMathDestruction