{"id":1995,"date":"2022-02-24T17:15:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cast.b-ap.net\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2022-02-24T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:15:38","slug":"arc-626-biased-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/2022\/02\/24\/arc-626-biased-by-design\/","title":{"rendered":"ARC 626 &#8211; Biased by Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1995\" class=\"elementor elementor-1995\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-551a8885 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"551a8885\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-63ca6b75\" data-id=\"63ca6b75\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31fe881e elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-featured-image elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"31fe881e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-featured-image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2022\/02\/phm_boxes_map_layers-1024x614.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1996\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2022\/02\/phm_boxes_map_layers-1024x614.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2022\/02\/phm_boxes_map_layers-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2022\/02\/phm_boxes_map_layers-768x461.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2022\/02\/phm_boxes_map_layers-1536x922.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2022\/02\/phm_boxes_map_layers-1568x941.jpeg 1568w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2022\/02\/phm_boxes_map_layers.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69f1881c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"69f1881c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Instructor: Mark Shepard<\/em><br \/><em>ARC 626<\/em><br \/><em>Spring 2022<\/em><\/p><p><b>DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p>In the drive toward an ever more optimal, efficient and sustainable urban environments, notions of algorithmic governance increasingly appear in discourse on smart cities and intelligent urbanism. Machine learning systems and their attendant extractive data practices are frequently cited both for their potential to make cities better places to live and their tendency to do harm by further exacerbating existing social and environmental injustice. Some champion the application of machine learning to environmental monitoring and traffic control, for instance, whereby threats to (and inconveniences of) urban life can be better anticipated and managed. Others point to the emergence of an urban-scale data determinism at work in forms of anticipatory governance such as predictive policing, whereby discriminatory algorithms calculate crime risk scores for different urban areas in order to optimize the allocation of law enforcement resources. This seminar will survey forms of algorithmic governance and the various kinds of bias embedded within so-called smart urban systems and infrastructure. 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