Where the subject of algorithmic fairness or privacy is not frontpage news today we will speak to the two leading lights in that area they will help us understand the state of the art is now and Going Forward with that we will welcome professor kearns first to the stage. Welcome to the stage. [applause] good morning thank you for coming my name is Michael Kearns with my close friend and colleague writing a general audience book called the ethical algorithm so for roughly half an hour we want to take you had a high level to the major themes of the book then we will open to q a. So many people and certainly this audience is aware in the past decade Machine Learning has gone from relatively obscure to mainstream news to characterize the first half of this decade is the glory. When all reports were positive with all these amazing advances like deep learning and speech recognition image categorization in many other areas we all enjoy the great benefits of this technology and the advances ma
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