“I hear a lot that algorithms are powerful technologies, and the companies are monopolies, and we are helpless against them, and Google is the only option,” says Kartik Hosanagar, a professor of technology and digital business at the University of Pennsylvania. “I’m trying to say that we aren’t.”
Hosanagar is the author of A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control, which comes out March 12th from Penguin Random House. The book takes the reader through all of the ways that daily lives are touched by algorithms. The Verge spoke to Hosanagar about the last part of the book: four suggestions, or “pillars,” to implement to prevent harmful, unanticipated consequences.
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