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Not even twenty minutes have passed, Danah Boyd is talking about war. Of cultural war, to be exact. The AmerikanischeMedienwissenschaftlerin has opened twelfth re: Publica in Berlin on this Wednesday with its keynote. She has drawn a gloomy picture of VernetztenGesellschaft, in which populism becomes more and more prominent – thanks to diligent help from leading technology companies and media.
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This is a prelude. Especially since re: Publica, Diewohl most important digital conference in Europe, is also a place where sichMedienschaffende, start-up-founders, data protectors and basically digital aktiveMenschen like to celebrate mselves and hear speeches. But re: Publica is becoming more political from year to year. And thus more critical of technology.
“Algorithms do not necessarily support a world in which we would like to live,” says Boyd, summing up a derSchwerpunkte of this year’s conference: in numerous lectures undDiskussionsrunden is about how algorithms, big data and Zunehmendauch Artificial Intelligence (KI) to determine our coexistence. Who wears DieVerantwortung when something goes wrong? And how can we do better?
How algorithms are abused
Algorithms and artificial intelligence are now dieAntwort on everything, Boyd begins her talk. However, re is still too little thought about moralischenKonsequenzen of technique: “We Dabeisehen just how system is being abused on a large scale.”
To illustrate this, Medienwissenschaftlerinmehrere has brought examples. In her lecture she describes how EsRechtspopulisten repeatedly manages to determine discourses on internet to occupy Undeinzelne expressions. Keyword fake-news. Thus, Sichneutrale search term “black on whitecrime” in search engines inevitably leads to right-extreme pages, weilderen operators skillfully manipulated search algorithms. “Red pills” is what Boyd calls se mes, alluding to film Matrix, intended to lure people into ir own world. The search algorithms of Google, Facebook and or social networks would be diligently helping.
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Also media, which increasingly focused on “buzz” on internet to ir reporting. After massacre of SurlandSprings Schriebetwa, US portal Newsweek’s website: “The Antifa is behind murders of SurlandsSprings, speculate rights media.” The assassin had nothing to do with DERANTIFA, but a crude ory had made it into mainstream media. It is solchenBeispielen to see how marginal groups succeed in hacking “Knowledge Zudestabilisieren” and “attention economics”, says Boyd.
And not least, algorithms and AI are not only manipulated, but y could be at worst of vornhereindiskriminierend, because underlying data sets or ihreEntwickler are not divers enough. What impact this could have, for example for refugees or social groups wieStraftäter by software and categorized, decided Esperanto we nurlangsam understand. “We are experiencing a shift of power towards DenTechnologiefirmen,” says Boyd at end of her lecture. And even if don’t is ir intention, so be it application of technology that is currently zahlreicheProbleme concern.
