Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Description
Recent headlines have peeled back the curtain to highlight the extent and scale on which personal data is used and traded by large internet businesses to influence opinion and actions. Combining the omnipresent data being captured with prediction and optimisation algorithms may sound fairly uninteresting, but the risks of this are very much real. We've created the capability for algorithms to kill, today, but not in the way you'd expect.