An insurance company might say, "Tell us more about yourself so your premiums can go down." When they say that, they're addressing the winners, not the losers.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

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.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.

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