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Algorithms are learning more and more about us while we seem to understand them less and less. Somewhere in the past few years we ceded some of our individual autonomy to ostensibly life-enriching algorithmic intelligence. Computational systems regularly tell us where to go, whom to date, what to be entertained by and what to think about (to name just a few examples). With every click, every app, every terms of service agreement, we buy into the idea that big data, ubiquitous sensors and various forms of machine-learning can model and beneficially regulate our lives.

Algorithms drive the stock market, compose and curate our music, approve loans, drive cars, write news articles, and make hiring and firing decisions. Are they in charge?

Join Future Tense for lunch in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 to explore the underlying tensions between law, technology, and culture in a moment where algorithms are beginning to define the boundaries of our own personal media bubbles.

Follow the discussion online using #TyrannyOfAlgorithms and follow us .

Participants:

David AuerbachÌý
¹ú²úÊÓƵ Fellow, software engineer, and writer for SlateÌý
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Ian BogostÌý
Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media StudiesÌý
and Professor of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of TechnologyÌý
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Nick DiakopoulosÌý
College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College ParkÌý
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Jenny FinkelÌý
Machine Learning Engineer, Mixpanel, Inc.Ìý
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Ed FinnÌý
Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State UniversityÌý

Jennifer GolbeckÌý
Associate Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
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Lee KonstantinouÌý
Science fiction writer and Assistant Professor of English,Ìý
University of Maryland, College ParkÌý
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Gideon Lichfield
Fellow, Data & Society Research Institute and Global News Editor, QuartzÌý
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Laura Moy
Senior Policy Counsel, Open Technology Institute, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ

Christine RosenÌý
Future Tense Fellow and Senior editor, The New AtlantisÌý

Jacqueline Wernimont Ìý
Author,ÌýHow to Do Things with Numbers: Histories of Quantified Cultures and Lives; and Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State UniversityÌý
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