Right to information in South Africa
Nomacebo Mbayo, WC Administrator and activist of the Right2Know Campaign, tells us more about the RICA case, access to information and the awareness of misuse of data in South Africa.
Category: #discrimination
Discrimination: Companies and governments use AI, powered by Big Data, to automate processes but also to categorize humans – as good or bad potential customers or as small or big risk for society. These automated decisions have enormous consequences on our lives and discriminate people of color, women and poor people.
We show why algorithms are biased, what critical techies and regulators do against it, and how a South African NGO fights inequitable access to the internet.
The techie resistance
Dirty data, greed for gain and a lack of diversity in the tech sector: There are many reasons why algorithms discriminate. But lawyers, regulators and, most importantly, critical techies have started standing up against A.I.’s destructive potential. Will human intelligence win?
“Algorithms are opinions embedded in code”
Tech companies have taken over the power to make decisions for us. That can be convenient as long as it concerns playlists or navigation. However, under the guise of “objectivity”, their algorithms also categorize humans and reinforce social inequality. What happens when an algorithm hits?