Talk about their book the ethical algorithm. I think a day does not go by in the news or otherwise or in our own work when the subject of algorithmic fairness or privacy is not frontpage news. Today were going to speak to the two leading lights in that area and theyre going to help us understand whatthe stateoftheart is now and what the stateoftheart will be going forward. With that, i think we will welcome Michael Kearns first to the stage. Michael kearns andaaron roth, welcome to the stage. [applause] good morning, thanks to everyone for coming. My name is Michael Kearns and with my close friend and colleague erin roth we have coauthored a book, a general audience book called the ethical algorithm subtitle is the science of socially aware algorithm design. So we want to do for roughly half an hour or so is take you at a high level through what some of the major themes of the book are and then we will open it up as jeff said to q a. So i think many, many people and certainly this audi
Given the heights and cool and facebook and others recently. You normally have a pretty broad stroke to your coverage. Why this book and right now . Thank you for having me, by the by. I started this book in 2017 i had just taken a job as a columnist for the financial times, trying to figure out the worlds biggest business and economic stories and an opinion form, and for the final, i started looking through corporate figures. I saw amazing numbers in the Financial Sector to the technology sector. Run the numbers that really stuck out was a Mckinsey Global institute figure, looking at 80 corporate wealth was in just 10 . Because of the firms richest in personal data and intellectual property. Basically, if your trafficking in these things, were holding the majority of the world corporate wealth. The biggest were the ones like facebook, apple, amazon, netflix a little bit and googled most about. Theres some overlap, facebook and google, apple mostly shunned advertising and third devices
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Welcome. Welcome to the Keystone Strategy transformative ideas lectureseries. Were lucky today to be hosted with cspan2. A couple housekeeping notes. When we get to q a there are microphones so raise your hand and the microphone will come to you and then the questions will be captured. So today we are extremely lucky to have Michael Behrens and erin ross, both from the university of pennsylvania here to talk about their book the ethical algorithm. I think a day does not go by in the news or otherwise or in our own work when the subject of algorithmic fairness or privacy is not frontpage news. Today were going to the two leading lights in that area and theyre going to help us understand what the stateoftheart is now and what the stateoftheart will be going forward. With that i think we will welcome professor Michael Kearns first to the stage, is that right . Great. Michael and erin,welcome to the stage. Okay, good morning. Thanks to everyone for coming. My name is michaelkearns and with
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