Best quotes by Kate Crawford on People

Checkout quotes by Kate Crawford on People

  • Algorithms learn by being fed certain images, often chosen by engineers, and the system builds a model of the world based on those images. If a system is trained on photos of people who are overwhelmingly white, it will have a harder time recognizing nonwhite faces.
    - Kate Crawford
  • Big Data is neither color-blind nor gender-blind. We can see how it is used in marketing to segment people.
    - Kate Crawford
  • While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have their own individual character and grain.
    - Kate Crawford
  • As we move into an era in which personal devices are seen as proxies for public needs, we run the risk that already-existing inequities will be further entrenched. Thus, with every big data set, we need to ask which people are excluded. Which places are less visible? What happens if you live in the shadow of big data sets?
    - Kate Crawford
  • People think 'big data' avoids the problem of discrimination because you are dealing with big data sets, but, in fact, big data is being used for more and more precise forms of discrimination - a form of data redlining.
    - Kate Crawford