Why Machine Learning is Political with Louise Amoore

The Good Robot - A podcast by Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage

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In this episode, we talk to Louise Amoore, professor of political geography at Durham and expert in how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Louise tells us how politics and society have shaped computer science practices. This means that when AI clusters data and creates features and attributes, and when its results are interpreted, it reflects a particular view of the world. In the same way, social views about what is normal and abnorm...