At the core of my book Cloud Ethics is the argument that algorithms are not unaccountable as such, they give accounts of themselves all of the time. At moments of apparent ‘madness’ the algorithm gives an account of its rationality, its regime of recognition. There is no outside.

Oct 19, 2021 · 3:55 PM UTC

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I am consistently blown away by the way you read texts. It's generative and capacious and opens critical possibilities where I will admit, I'd not seen it. Thanks for your work.
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Your notion of regime of recognition and your book more broadly has been very insightful for a paper we hope will be accepted and published soon on Interpol's SIIP system.
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Well, yes, but are you ascribing agency to the algorithm, rather than to the originator of the algorithm? I can shoot an arrow, and the arrow can have varying quality in its movements (e.g., due to straightness of its shaft, symmetry of its fledging, etc.),but... /1
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Algorithms, like us, don't have anything as reducible as agency or intent.
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Indeed. Biases are caked into the mix.
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Very apt since I'm reading In Search of WGS just now! Wonderful book - thanks so much for the recommendation.
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Powerful notion! Thanks for sharing your work.