When I think about whether I want to take a job, I don't just think about whether it's technically interesting, although I do consider that. I also consider the question of whether it's good for the world.

I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.

Evidence of harm is hard to come by.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.

When people are not given an option by some secret scoring system, it's very hard to complain, so they often don't even know that they've been victimized.

Micro-targeting is the ability for a campaign to profile you, to know much more about you than you know about it, and then to choose exactly what to show you.

Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.