Cathy O'Neil Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Agendas, Algorithms, Embedding

  Source: www.salon.com

• Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Thinking, Past, People

  Source: www.salon.com

• With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm [used in New York City to score teachers], I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Meaningful, Teacher, New York

  Source: www.salon.com

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