graham 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 rate people on their terrorist genius this guy matt 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 terrorist david. you're going to hurt to have a box company maybe i'll leave my box cutter at home to. 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