because they said they were it's the brilliance of the rhythm of making this decision brandt frys 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 says 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 quad 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 wouldn't reveal how it worked this is