Evidence of harm is hard to come by.

Evidence of harm is hard to come by.

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

Because of my experience in Occupy, instead of asking the question, "Who will benefit from this system I'm implementing with the data?" I started to ask the question, "What will happen to the most vulnerable?" Or "Who is going to lose under this system? How will this affect the worst-off person?" Which is a very different question from "How does this improve certain people's lives?"

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.