(Article published in CCCBLab, 25 SEPTEMBER 2018) A summer school focusing on art, communication technologies and a networked planet Data tracking, an in-depth look at a company that produces spying software, discovering someone’s habits based on their browsing history, analysing cyber warfare in independent media or researching the surveillance economy. The first edition of the […]

(Artículo publicado en el CCCBLab el 2 de marzo de 2021. Autores: Karma Peiró y Ricardo Baeza-Yates). Si sabemos que los algoritmos tienen sesgos que pueden perjudicar a personas o colectivos, ¿por qué dejamos que tomen decisiones?

Reúno en esta entrada los artículos que he escrito durante el pasado año y medio con el científico de datos, Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Hemos hablado de inteligencia artificial, algoritmos, sesgos y datos. Y como nos pilló la pandemia, también de las lecciones que aprendimos con el tratamiento de datos que tenían que mantenernos informados sobre el avance del virus. 

This is an English summary of the article by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Karma Peiró, and published in AI4EU. The original source can be found in Catalan and Spanish. ——————————————————————————————————— By early 2020, almost no one had heard about coronavirus, or how the disease could change the world in a matter of weeks. Five months later, the world […]

If we know that algorithms may have biases that can harm individuals or groups, why do we let them make decisions? (Article by Karma Peiró and Ricardo Baeza-Yates. CCCBLab, 2021)

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need to improve our preparedness if we are to tackle a human crisis on a global scale. It has also highlighted the need to plan how public health data should be collected, and how this data should be processed and communicated to the public. As we have seen […]