{"id":6266,"date":"2016-08-03T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T11:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2016-08-03T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:10:07","slug":"making-algorithms-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6266","title":{"rendered":"Making Algorithms Accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ProPublica has a great op-ed about <a href='https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/making-algorithms-accountable'>Making Algorithms Accountable<\/a>. The story starts from a decision from the Wisconsin Supreme Court on computer-generated risk (of recidivism) scores. The scores used in Wisconsin come from Northpointe who provide the scores as a service based on a proprietary alogorithm that seems biased against blacks and not that accurate. The story highlights the lack of any legislation regarding algorithms that can affect our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/propublica-responds-to-companys-critique-of-machine-bias-story\">ProPublica has responded to a Northpointe critique<\/a> of their findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProPublica has a great op-ed about Making Algorithms Accountable. The story starts from a decision from the Wisconsin Supreme Court on computer-generated risk (of recidivism) scores. The scores used in Wisconsin come from Northpointe who provide the scores as a service based on a proprietary alogorithm that seems biased against blacks and not that accurate. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Algorithms Accountable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6270,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}