Governments are increasingly using algorithms to make decisions that affect us all.
The UK’s exam result fiasco has shown how they can replicate discrimination and inequality. But the concerns are global and cut across healthcare, policing, immigration, child protection and more.
Does it matter who provides the technology? Who decides what data goes in, and when they are used? And do they have potential for good?
Join us on 5pm UK time on 20 August as we discuss whether algorithms are here to stay, and how we can respond to the challenge of algorithmic injustice.
In conversation:
Lina Dencik Co-director of the Data Justice Lab at the University of Cardiff, specialising in digital surveillance and the politics of data.
Gurumurthy Kasinathan Co-director of IT for Change, an international NGO looking at the relationship between digital technology and social justice.
Chair: Caroline Molloy Editor of openDemocracyUK and ourNHS.
Further speakers to be confirmed.