The Evil Algorithm?

Last month after speaking to men about accountability to their God, wife, family and fellow brethren, one of the audience members came up to me and said, “Troy we need to stop the algorithm!” This gentleman didn’t seem like he knew technology, so I asked, “what do you mean by stopping the algorithms?”

He said, “they are evil and meant to destroy us.” As I tried to explain to him that algorithms, at their core, aren’t “evil.” They are a neither good or evil. They are based on our behaviors. I believe what he meant was the idea that there is a puppet master coding a way for an algorithm to control our thoughts and eventually our actions.

Pedro Domingos wrote a book called The Master Algorithm, in which he writes: “An algorithm is a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do. They are reduced to three logical operations: AND, OR, and NOT. While these operations can chain together in extraordinarily complex ways, at the core, algorithms are built out of simple rational associations.”

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