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Book Talk: Voices in the Code

December 12, 2022
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Event Description

A diverse group of patients, surgeons, clinicians, data scientists, public officials, and advocates collaborated and compromised to build a new transplant matching algorithm for kidney donations. The book illustrates both the promise and the limits of participation, transparency, forecasting, and auditing of high-stakes software.

The public often finds algorithms to be complex, opaque, and intimidating—and it can be tempting to pretend that hard moral questions have simple technological answers. But that approach leaves technical experts holding the moral microphone, and it stops people who lack technical expertise from making their voices heard. This talk will explore how policymakers and scholars are seeking better ways to share such moral decision-making.

Event Information

Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage. Please contact Madeline Wood at [email protected]with any questions. 

Hosted by Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute