Inaugural lecture 2021-2022

Questions from the UOC community: Salvador Macip

Ethical algorithms to combat misinformation

 

“We need ethical algorithms for the public interest and we need to reclaim back an electronic public sphere where we can communicate, we can decide, we can have our full democracy in place”

“At the core of the business model of platforms there are algorithms that maximize one main thing (because they’re commercial platforms) which is profit”