I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.

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

I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.

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

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

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.

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.