{"id":5157,"date":"2018-03-06T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2018-03-06T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T12:35:32","slug":"the-algorithmic-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-algorithmic-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Algorithmic Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abeba Birhane\/\u00a0Neil Lawrence\/\u00a0Martin Robbins<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p>Listen to the recording <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20180306_TheAlgorithmicAge.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or on <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wIjWlB6_23o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Looking for love? Ask your computer, since 1 in 5 couples now first meet online. Have we outsourced love to abstract algorithms? And what about elections or our summer getaways? From the targeted marketing of political campaigns to the predictive typing that preempts your Google search, machines may know us better than we know ourselves. We explore how far modern life is mediated by the computation of data, and ask whether we should trust in the algorithm or find ways to outwit it.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/abebabirhane.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Abeba Birhane<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Postgraduate Researcher in Cognitive Science, University College Dublin<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/inverseprobability.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neil Lawrence<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, Professor of Machine Learning, University of Sheffield; Director of Machine Learning, Amazon<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mjrobbins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Martin Robbins<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Writer for <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>Vice<\/em>, and <em>Little Atoms<\/em> on AI<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/shahidha-bari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Shahidha Bari<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Fellow, The Forum; Senior Lecturer in Romanticism, Queen Mary, University of London<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 27 February 2018 in the LSE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abeba Birhane\/\u00a0Neil Lawrence\/\u00a0Martin Robbins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":4960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[54,55],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ethics","tag-politicalphilosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2017\/11\/8-The-Algorithmic-Age.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1lb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5230,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}