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.

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

It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.

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.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."