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Algorithmic accountability

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Algorithmic accountability concerns who must explain, justify and repair automated decisions. Effective oversight requires duties and power to change outcomes, not a ceremonial human signature.

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  • Guided course · Module 14 · Lesson 88

    A map you can keep revising

    The garden dispute from lesson 1 returns, now examined through Socratic questioning and public reason. The course ends by building a source-grounded comparison that records disagreement and stays open to revision.

  • Guided course · Module 14 · Lesson 85

    Who is responsible when a decision is automated?

    When a ranking system decides who gets a training place, who must answer for the decision? With Binns and Nissenbaum, the lesson asks what prediction, explanation and human review leave unresolved about justification and repair.