Data & Society Research Institute 182d ago

Code Dependent spans stories from across the globe and calls attention to the voices of ordinary people as they navigate the everyday challenges of living with data-driven systems and work to reclaim their agency. In the process, Murgia invites a deeper reflection on these systems and how they interact with human ethics and judgment. Purchase a copy of Code Dependent: https://bookshop.org/a/14284/9781250867391 Learn more at datasociety.net (https://datasociety.net) -- On November 14, in a conversation moderated by Data & Society Senior Researcher Ranjit Singh, Madhumita Murgia and Armin Samii discussed Murgia’s new book, Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI. Together, they explored living with data by describing their journeys into understanding it, reporting on it, and resisting it. While Murgia’s journalistic journey began with tracing the flow of her personal data sold by data brokers, Samii used his expertise as a computer scientist to build UberCheats, an algorithm auditing tool that extracts GPS coordinates from UberEats receipts to calculate the difference between the actual miles a courier traveled and those Uber claimed they did. In Code Dependent, Samii’s story is the focus of a chapter on how data-driven systems come to play the role of the boss.