Algorithms Don't Make Decisions!: Digital Societies

Andrew C. Dwyer

Algorithms Don't Make Decisions! Digital Societies

Andrew C. Dwyer

Department of Information Security

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Abstract

We are frequently told that algorithms, machine learning and AI make decisions on our behalf. In this blog post, I make an argument for a different claim: that computation can never make a decision, and I reposition how algorithmic choices are political and condition decision as a distinctly human p

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2020

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