[Air-L] algorithms as infrastructures/archives

[Dave Levine]

Loup, from my perspective as a law professor, on your second point, I’d highly recommend Kroll et al., Accountable Algorithms (https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review/vol165/iss3/3/). I’ve also written extensively on accountability, transparency, and code in the private and public sectors   (see, for example, The People’s Trade Secrets (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1571436) and Confidentiality Creep and Opportunistic Privacy (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3064257).

Happy to discuss off-line if you’d like.

Thanks, Best, Dave 

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> On May 27, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Loup Cellard <loupcellard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Anyone can recommend readings helping in conceptualising algorithms as
> "old" infrastructures or "living" archives.
> 
> I am studying more particularly large-scale decision-making systems that
> relies on "old" infrastructures of the state.
> Ex: algorithms used to calculate taxes, the work mobility of civil
> servants, allocation of students into schools, etc.
> 
> I am interested about two things :
> 
>   - while algorithms are sometimes defined as innovative and somehow "new"
>   they actually relies on "old" infrastructures. (the temporality of
>   infrastructures)
>   - the infrastructural capacity of the state and the way it maintain an
>   opacity on these systems. (the attractiveness and dangers of algorithmic
>   transparency)
> 
> 
> Any recommendation from infrastructure studies ? critical algorithm studies
> ? sociology/anthropology of the state and civil services ?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Loup
> 
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