just wash over you like a warm apathy. right these algorithms are all around us having an impact on every aspect of our lives whether or not you get called in for a job interview there's an algorithm helping them decide that whether you get into college there's a number of them for that whether you get dropped from your health care there's an algorithm for that whether you get paired with a hot guy on match dot com or. paired with some sort of bridge troll who you know smells of spoiled tofu and squeals when he sneezes there's a great. number 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 sees and flaws as the humans who create them but they aren't unbiased at all they're often racist and prejudiced and i ask. you. because you live.

so 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 scratch and they're looking for someone who already has they find someone to arrest that's. what a creep. 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 going 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. with. the 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 and 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. say that it isn't that against the law to hold someone in prison because of something someone else did it. was a drug you had in jail. 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 these next four questions this isn't some sort of guantanamo tortures this is i'm not getting there they're over they've already asked on the questionnaire whether you ever feel bored are 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 the things you are doing or boring adult number one zero to do 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 by god. if they did this survey designed to drive yourself nuts you just

stabbed a lawyer in the leg kick over the table and then they're like well you gotta keep him in jail. 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. 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 finally i have felt angry had someone or i had something. no no no no i never felt angry never though i was. these

algorithms big scores for prison time are 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 caught a fire raced system sexism and other prejudices against mentally ill and the poor and now it has a bright shiny technological face to go with 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 ray 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 what the math is behind them they can't even tell 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 would have to quit my

complaining if we test them 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 slightly 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 and. we thought 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 in a box company maybe i'll leave my box come. at home to take

a year 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 can 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. thanks. to 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 there artificial intelligence called in terminator guy that it was guy that a dog. was. a . cameos take the news from

behind warmonger john bolton has been chosen 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 men he acts out there he used to only be at home on fox news but now

his opinions of bombing everywhere and saying we should hang whistleblowers from the trees those opinions would fit nicely at c.n.n. m.s.n. be say pay be 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 at would or 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 when ironically is also what we. are. doing a wonderful job. the 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 that use the word but. according to the were. 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 it'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 cancer 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 sacks or with what do you think we were talking to each other all the stuff. you know 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. no worry 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 can 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 one right thank you very. much expense efficient will each one selling for the ten. if 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 me. it's only a whim themself a much larger mission was once there that 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 geared toward long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. which. don't want by wagon that he will go back to one. or yours will pull you out of. it open ended mouth and assume what about and i didn't do it we will always be the good is it also. helps home. on a puff instead. you to keep it or don't know don't let you come up looking to do good.

on ten young men about the holonomy have been a man but that dam and the money on his i'm. not bad with the intent of but oh november that if i say i love them that is down to the point about on the i'm about to have the only thing it is about. you know 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 to molony right now. 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 limit your way. thank god is this what's going on here. eighty three world hospitals closing in the last eight years i've decided to do my part to solve this problem in my rural hospital in colorado even though the hospital's only doctor is moving in on our territory but i think she'll come around pretty sure that's dr quinn medicine woman was. exactly as her judgment over yours i mean of your own to hospital know but scott pruitt runs the e.p.a. in the cold. and it's not fame type of confidence that didn't stop a florida toxicology lab owner named aaron draw from buying a world ga 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 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. start 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 twenty 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

hospital crisis by using their millions to buy their dying 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. either like it but you're 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 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 each year ok unless we need to universal health care it will always be the people who can afford the care and they face the fallout 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 my beyonce comparison and rebranded as the single lame duck we all. know to all independent colorado women we will be fully stocked of contraceptives. so if you like it you should put a new hearing in it. you know more could be gained by fraudsters it's also climate science for more of this raging controversy we go to our doctor correspondent naomi cura bonnie. a group of car manufacturers like for are hiring climate change deniers to justify rolling back fuel regulations you need not worry they aren't hiring them as designed consultants so we won't be seeing proposals like the fool we all automatic

converted 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. the winter as a whole soon will watch games like one shoveling and monsoon marathons every four years if 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 happy horror a truly impressive ford scientists and. engineers most of spend years underground in isolation creating 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 know heartland tries to convince americans global warming is a belief held only by murderers others have their own crusades like the dentist

association. the. blue 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 would. be. rolled back obama era regulations

which were already a low bar their true love remain the gas guzzling s.u.v.s and pickup trucks they sell with rock n roll even while they promote electric cars with clearly targeted to people who can't even drive. you know not asian women. you know who i am. reporting from washington kara vonnie project. you know 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 eat owners. and then a couple more weeks. friends not sure whether to tell john bolton about a little bit of napalm stuck in his moustache. 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 rossett washington d.c. every week until next time good night. time about email bend of the entire you might even want to get. them but again. and again and i mean by my mind how many i mean god knows you won't think me going to be. making such a move to india that in. the end just read them and you can see so if you want. any know by other natural again that he may as well see

a good deal i'd say because the. patient is full of them feeling hopeful and kind of cool for using tables oh. they only climb the famed 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 of 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 they owe me feel they have a monopoly on good intentions which i'm not sure where that comes from. i. was. was.

seventeen people were killed over a thousand injured as israeli soldiers fired bullets and used drones and tear gas as they accuse palestinian protesters of inciting violence at the gaza border. american diplomatic staff leave the u.s. consulate in st petersburg ahead of the official closure on sunday as the standoff escalates over the poisoning of former spies. in the u.k. . and police fire water cannon and tear gas at protesters letting off flares during a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of don't.