that whether you get paired with a hot guy on match dot com are. paired with some sort of bridge troll who you know smells of spoiled tofu and squeals when he sleazes there's no room for. another or the very thing and we're led to believe these algorithms or perfect and unbiased but in fact they're filled with the same biased and flaws as the humans who create them but they aren't unbiased at all they're often racist and prejudiced and ask. you. to get you. sewn they're basically the holes. that you had to be mad at them. for example predictive policing police are using software to predict crime a lot of lawmakers are excited about this you put a bunch of data into an algorithm and it tells you where to put the police but

predictive policing is just a racist self-fulfilling prophecy because the algorithm goes wow there was a lot of crime in the neighborhood let's put more police there but in fact there was crime scene in that neighborhood because it was a poor black neighborhood and the world a lot of cops there are already looking for people to arrest and guess what when cobb stand around the neighborhood doing nothing but scratching their and looking for someone who already has they find someone to arrest that's. what people white people smoke weed at the same rate as blacks but black people get arrested a lot more for it because the cops are targeting them and are positioning themselves in those neighborhoods as data analyst kathy o'neill said in her book about algorithms they are nothing more than opinions imbedded in code except that doesn't stop officials from pointing to these algorithms and go. it's completely objective

computers can't be biased that tell that to my talent my digital therapist are right every time i bring up my fear of intimacy he yells the truth if we're. going rhythms are corrupted with our biases for example in many states they now use secretive algorithms to determine whether people get a longer prison sentence for a crime due to being high risk of committing future crimes but the data points that make up the so-called high risk are already prejudiced here's some of the questions from the actual questionnaire created by northpoint inc which makes the risk assessment algorithm if you lived with both parents and they separated how old were you when they did was your father or mother ever arrested were your brothers or sisters ever arrested did a parent have

a drug or alcohol problem well a some of these things are more likely if you're poor so basically if you're kept basically kept in jail for being poor and be alcohol problems could you imagine being kept in jail a year longer because your mom had a cabernet is to. save it isn't that against the law to hold someone in prison because of something someone else did yet guys a drug you get in jail the. number ninety seven just how much do you agree or disagree with the following you feel unhappy at the time. i'm currently in prison about to go before a judge and every day i poop in front of thirty other guys. if i didn't say i'm unhappy most of the time wouldn't that make me a psychopath. ok the. is next for questions this is this

some sort of guantanamo tortures this is i'm not getting there already they've already asked on the questionnaire whether you ever feel bored or right number ninety nine how much do you agree with the following you are often restless or bored number one hundred do you often become bored with the usual activities number one on one do you often feel that the things you are doing are boring adult number one zero two is it difficult for you to keep your mind on one thing for a long time yes yes i'm bored all right thank you that is a part of my god i of course if they did the survey designed to drive yourself nuts you just stabbed a lawyer in the leg to pull over the table and then they're like well you gotta keep him in jail. just to have the lawyer. number thirty six many people get in trouble or use drugs because society has given them no education job or future how much do you agree or disagree that's just

a true statement alright but if you answer it correctly you're probably at a greater risk of staying in prison kind of like when you're in third grade if you say columbus was a genocidal maniac you don't get a good grade on this. sometimes the right answer his the wrong and. and finalist i have felt angry had someone or i had something. no no no no i never felt angry never though i had. these algorithms big scores for prison time were being used in over a half all our states right now people are sitting behind bars because they said they were bored basically algorithms are being used to codified system sexism and other prejudices against mentally ill and the poor and now it has a bright shiny tack. no logical face to go with that you know the amenas traders

and the judges can go it's not me it's the brilliant algorithm making this decision brand fries is the president of into re the company that developed one of the state algorithms knocking people off their health care that they desperately need when shown in court that his algorithm was completely screwing up and thereby destroying lives he said quote you're going to have to trust me that a bunch of smart people determined this is the smart way to do it. here's me to surprise you yet some condescending quote face dripping out your nose right there is this just a little on top of this the victims of all these algorithms often find it impossible to get access to the math is behind them they can't even do that they can fight against them kathy o'neill the data analyst i mentioned earlier she tried to find a code for an algorithm that was getting new york city teachers fired for poor

performance she found that not even new york city administrators knew what made up the algorithm they were using because with the wisconsin company that created it wouldn't reveal how it worked this is like if you go to a performance review your boss opens up a fortune cookie and goes. has your fire. in bad. i guess i'll just. i guess i'll just have to quit my complaining if we tested algorithms and they work really well well pro publica looked into that criminal recidivism risk assessment we have tain the risk or is assigned to more than seven thousand people and check to see how many were charged with new crimes over the next two years only twenty percent of the people predicted to commit. violent crimes actually went on to do so when

a full range of crimes were taken into account the algorithm was somewhat more accurate than a coin flip. leave more accurate than the flip of a cool one yet it's being used to keep people in jail ruining their lives but at least it wasn't racist right funny you should ask the formula was particularly likely to falsely flag black defendants as future criminals wrongly labeling them this way almost twice the rate as white defendants you know a lot of people used to say they want to be lovely in our high tech future when computers take over and there will be no prejudice no racism nope. we just made the computers racists. hope that doesn't also mean they're going to take the other jobs like masturbating on the subway you know that. was safe. but don't worry it gets worse our military uses an algorithm in their skynet program to

decide who should be on the terrorism kill list and as the guardian reported overall the n.s.a. machine learning algorithm uses more than eighty different properties to write people on their terrorist genius this guy i met gets it wrong you could find yourself on the receiving end of a hellfire missile dispatched by a predator or reaper drone hope i'm not acting to terrorists. the worked out a box company maybe i'll leave my box cutter at home today. the article goes on algorithms increasingly rule our lives it's a small step from applying skynet logic to look for terrorists in pakistan to applying the same logic domestically to look for drug dealers or protestors or just people who disagree with the state and here's the larger point that you probably won't hear elsewhere algorithms. could be used to do the most amazing things and

truly change the world for the better they could be used to find out how many of fish a community can eat without overfishing their waters how much c o two we can release or water that we can use it with we could analyze how many cops really have to be on the streets and what kind of reward punishment system would help them stop committing acts of brutality and aggression but instead of. putting. his own money interests who benefit by kicking people off of health care bombing foreign lands firing teachers and keeping people in jail as long as possible the market system is in on the present beast that only seeks profit and protection all of the system like in terminator when the robots were working as a group of mind to destroy the humans who fought against the system and what were

the what was in their artificial intelligence called in terminator guy that it was guy that a dog. was. a. timely candelas take the news from behind warmonger john bolton there has been shows in a no not a fan has been so. trumps national security advisor this is the same guy who for years has pushed for bombing iran bombing north korea bombing syria of course bombing iraq and afghanistan pakistan and yemen and actually since this is only

a half hour show i'm going to. countries he hasn't said we should. lichtenstein. yeah never said we should buy them although he once recommended quote crushing economic sanctions on them that would turn their children to dust. i made that up but he probably thought it was probably good point is john bolton is one of the biggest he acts out there he used to only be at home on fox news but now he's opinions of bombing everywhere and saying we should hang whistleblowers from the trees those opinions would fit nicely at c.n.n. am as a paid b.s. the disney channel nickel. the cooking channel. so while the would be war criminals get promoted the battle against those who reveal war crimes continues act

would door has cut off julian assange internet access one of his only remaining channels to the outside world this is probably due to pressure from the us saying is everyone from hillary clinton to mike bomb peo to john bolton has said assad should be drone bombed for the unforgivable crime of revealing the truth which ironically is also what we. do in a wonderful. our military is great to see. the world. but i can't get out of thinking of the world a new report by the intergovernmental science policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services jesus that's a title my god isn't business cards was really a foot long they said over seventy five percent of the earth's soil surface has

been. i mean maybe then use the word but. according to the. the world's first evidence based assessment of the state of the planet's land health more than seventy five percent of the earth's soil surface has substantially degraded putting the well being of some three point two billion people at risk that's only three point two billion why we've been targeted says that's like less than half the year i use the same analysis with my children all right if less than half are at risk of death and all is well. since i don't have any kids it makes the math easier. also breaking this week microsoft is now banning offensive language on all of its platforms microsoft is warning customers using office x.-box skype and cetera that content involving for example nudity

yalla be pornography offensive language graphic violence or criminal activity. did you honestly say you're branding nudity on skype. what is your eighty percent ascribes business model in cyber sachs or what do you think we were talking to each other all these days. and no offensive language on x. box. last i checked every single popular game on x. box had to do with like killing hookers in a back alley or shooting at people you don't understand in the streets of kabul so you're saying that's fine. you know we're you can still murder people on our video games you just can't yell dirty while you do it. if you go to a quick break but you get exclusive content every week just text the word redacted to four four four nine nine nine it's free and quick and sign you up our e-mail list when we write baghdad thank.

you. they only apply to face off her who is writing extensively on environmental issues and social justice issues went to these conferences in puerto rico and her takeaway was that a bunch of people all showed up and this is a danger to the local economy and to the local fabric of society so the first thing that strikes me is that lefties like bail me feel they have

a monopoly on good intentions i'm not sure where that comes from. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching. it's only remnants of a much larger mission was once there was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not feared or long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. like when you have no clean water no health care no infrastructure those are all symptoms of a greater problem in haiti and that greater problem is imperialism that

a greater problem is dead dependency and domination that haiti has had to deal with since it became the first. free republic ruled by black people. b.t.o. for thank. you . thank you i think you know a major city like washington d.c. we're fortunate to be within a stone's throw of

a local hospital at all times while in rural america a local hospital is about as close as trump is the millennium right now so. but despite the fact rural hospitals are literally the only game in their town they're still in danger of closing their doors and their owners are desperately looking for people to buy them but there's something fishy going on with the sale of these hospitals for more on this we turn to our senior med school dropout now imogen. thank you so much going on here with eighty three world hospitals closing in the last eight years i decided to do my part to solve this problem and by rural hospital in colorado even though the hospitals only doctor is moving in on our territory but i think she'll come around pretty sure that's dr quinn medicine woman but. i understand trust her judgment over yours i mean of your own

to hospitable for no but scott pruitt runs the e.p.a. in the coal. area and if that same type of confidence that didn't stop a florida town. the quality lab owner named aaron draw from buying a rural georgia hospital two years ago for fifteen million dollars and he does return on his investment after simply billing his labs drug test through the hospital and collecting insurance reimbursement checks as large as half a million dollars or he's so he's like reimbursing himself for the lab. insurance reimbursements higher also in rural areas to designed to keep these hospitals alive. stern is a lot like fraud no real fraud is when i told the hospital i thought that i'm beyond say and then. they'd be too white to know the difference on sales. and a side note they were. but what this florida man and others are doing is creating

a solid financial investment just like another florida man whose private company took over missouri's putnam county memorial hospital in two thousand and sixteen after he sent bills from other laps of that rural hospital it received more than ninety million dollars in insurance payments for lab work conducted at other hospitals around the country with this method these florida men are solving the world's hospital crisis by using their millions to buy other guy in rural hospitals and we should be grateful considering the average florida man would have used his money to change the state flag to a gator with a gun in its mouth. rather like it but i'm going to grateful that this scheme is just another example of our country's broken for profit health system a system you know where people will continue to be exploited for financial gain i don't know what's more upsetting about this the fact this fraud will make

a struggling america's premiums explode or the fact that they'll skyrocket just a fad in the pockets of health insurance c.e.o.'s making tens of millions already. or ok let's we need to universal health care it will always be the people who can afford the care and they face the fallout of ok all right maybe maybe i can find another way to make back my investment but it is possible to earn money and help people to do when you learn that when i've milk might be obsolete comparison and rebranded legally little. no to all independent colorado women we will be fully stocked with contraceptives. so if you like it you should put a new varying in it. was little more could be gained by fraudsters it's also climate science for more of this raging controversy we go to redacted correspondent naomi cara bonnie.

a group of car manufacturers like for are hiring climate change deniers to justify rolling back fuel regulations but you need not worry they aren't hiring them as design consultants so we won't be seeing proposals like the fool we all automatic verdict chimneys to spew were the alliance for automobiles is a trade group that represents a wide variety of car companies they funded this shady study casting doubt on the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change so they're lobbying behind closed doors for dirtier cars and by dirtier i don't mean with seats covered in the crusty substance your wife hopes is old yogurt publicly however the alliance showcases their commitment to sustainability and clean energy with ads displaying

sunsets and happy children and winter olympics athletes all the things climate change will eventually eliminate. which are as a whole soon will watch games like one shoveling and monsoon marathons every four years curling put you to sleep wait till you see competitive ditch. recently created so whimsical it looks like wes anderson's fever dream about electric cars and warning it is cute here you see earth carbon emissions and here you see electric vehicles make healthy horror a truly impressive foreign scientists and engineers most of spend years underground in isolation reading such lethal levels of charm and makes the alliance's report look as though they use the same amount of effort as it takes to wet the bed the

alliance hired industry shills with ties to the heartland institute who is responsible for this masterpiece of a billboard tying global warming to the unabomber saying i still believe in climate change do you. heartland tries to convince americans global warming is a belief held only by murderers others who have their own crusades like the dentist association. who guy. the union of concerned scientists responded to the alliance's report with an official statement here is their comment in full l.o.l. what i was paraphrasing the use c.s. actually said the alliance report was based on a convoluted and biased modeling for masquerading as science they pointed out how the alliance selected key points from a paper on drought variation that seemed to diminish the role of climate change on

drought and flood ignoring the paper's other findings related to increasing temperatures here's a visual depiction of what the alliance did in the face of overwhelming. evidence. that. the. roll back obama era regulations which were already a low bar their true loves remain gas guzzling s.u.v.s and pickup trucks they sell with rock n roll even one of the most electric cars were clearly targeted to people who can't even drive. you know not asian women. reporting from washington and we caravan any protests. here are your headlines from the future in one week you'll read a company refusing to reveal code behind algorithm that cost forty thousand rubles

to owners. and then a couple more weeks still related friends not sure whether to tell john bolton about a little bit of naipaul's talk of his most. that's our show but i have live comedy shows coming up in new york city columbus ohio new haven connecticut rochester pittsburgh and more you can get all of that and find out details and tickets at redacted tor dot com also we're here rashid washington d.c. every week until next time goodnight. times about e-mail. even when i get. them but then again.

i don't and i mean by my money i know god. intended. to get. those things just like him and you can see so if you want. to know who to buy up and actually get at the i've got to make a deal i say because he. thinks he is. hopeful and think. oh. yes scotland yard did not look for the perpetrators they were covering up their tracks you know the muslim world they're scared they're so good they had their free didn't russia will find out who did it and personal i think it was ukraine who did

that. ukraine once russia to clash with the rest of the world. how does it feel to be a share of the greatest job in the world it's as close to being a king as any job there is what business model helps to run a prison now we do this do or don't like nobody oh visitation i don't no one comes anymore we don't have to serve them anymore is cost effective that's what they want to do that as long as they don't give a damn if you do the chores or not there are actually paying enough to put a mockingbird. the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the usa in breach what she quote is behind such success.

seventeen people killed more than a thousand injured as israeli soldiers fobbed bullets and use drones and tear gas kucing palestinian demonstrators of inciting violence at the gaza border. making diplomatic staff and leaving the u.s. consulate in st petersburg ahead of its official closure on sunday but the move comes amid an escalating standoff over the poisoning of a former double agent in the u.k. . police fire water cannon and tear gas against protesters letting off during a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of not.