![]() Researcher Andrew Tutt called for an “ FDA for Algorithms,” noting, “The rise of increasingly complex algorithms calls for critical thought about how to best prevent, deter and compensate for the harms that they cause ….This after internet security expert Bruce Schneier warned in September that “Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet.” And the abuse of Facebook’s News Feed algorithm and general promulgation of fake news online became controversial as the 2016 U.S. 21, 2016, after hackers bombarded Dyn DNS, an internet traffic handler, with information that overloaded its circuits, ushering in a new era of internet attacks powered by internet-connected devices. An internet slowdown swept the East Coast of the U.S. Well-intentioned algorithms can be sabotaged by bad actors.Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, pointed out that predictive analytics based on algorithms tend to punish the poor, using algorithmic hiring practices as an example.So, Facebook then turned the job over to algorithms only to find that they could not discern real news from fake news. First, it had a team of humans edit the feature, but controversy erupted when some accused the platform of being biased against conservatives. Facebook tried to create a feature to highlight Trending Topics from around the site in people’s feeds.Microsoft engineers created a Twitter bot named “Tay” this past spring in an attempt to chat with Millennials by responding to their prompts, but within hours it was spouting racist, sexist, Holocaust-denying tweets based on algorithms that had it “learning” how to respond to others based on what was tweeted at it. ![]() 7, 2016, partly because of currency trades triggered by algorithms. ![]() ![]()
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