The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.

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.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

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.

Evidence of harm is hard to come by.

Especially from my experience as a quant in a hedge fund - I naively went in there thinking that I would be making the market more efficient and then was like, oh my God, I'm part of this terrible system that is blowing up the world's economy, and I don't want to be a part of that.