Why 'Ditch the algorithm' is the future of political protest | A-levels | The Guardian - 0 views
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Our life chances – if we get a visa, whether our welfare claims are flagged as fraudulent, or whether we’re designated at risk of reoffending – are becoming tightly bound up with algorithmic outputs. Could the A-level scandal be a turning point for how we think of algorithms – and if so, what durable change might it spark?
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Resistance to algorithms has often focused on issues such as data protection and privacy. The young people protesting against Ofqual’s algorithm were challenging something different. They weren’t focused on how their data might be used in the future, but how data had been actively used to change their futures
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In the future, challenging algorithmic injustices will mean attending to how people’s choices in education, health, criminal justice, immigration and other fields are all diminished by a calculation that pays no attention to our individual personhood.
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