The Conversation

A‑level results: why algorithms get things so wrong – and what we can do to fix them

The scale of public anger over the automated downgrading of thousands of students’ A-level results highlights how much social and political power algorithmic decision-making now has. As well as ...
The National Interest

Why Do Algorithms Make Mistakes?

The scale of public anger over the automated downgrading of thousands of students’ A-level results highlights how much social and political power algorithmic decision-making now has. As well as ...
The Conversation

Not just A‑levels: unfair algorithms are being used to make all sorts of government decisions

The recent use of an algorithm to calculate the graduating grades of secondary school students in England provoked so much public anger at its perceived unfairness that it’s widely become known as the ...