Drawing Algorithms
← Go back

An algorithm, drawn by a 44-year-old female professor of sociology in the US.

Okay. And then I would like you to do a second drawing and that's on this part, which is how an algorithm works. I'm leaving this on so you can narrate it. That's it? Yeah. This is your drawing? Yeah. Can you say a little bit more about it? Me personally, honestly, I don't know how algorithms work. I know some people do, but the problem with that is also that we don't know how algorithms work. What goes in, what comes out, but they're very consequential. So that was again the easiest way to just to think of one simple image and yeah, black box. When you say they're consequential, what are they consequential for? They're consequential for, you know, you have credit scores and people are getting credit access to resources or not because they have certain scoring. Some people are not even scored at all, so they wouldn't be able to get banked for instance. Now they're being used in employment I think, or for various purposes that have nothing to do with what they were initially designed. Yeah. So crazy inequalities. Okay. Thank you.