What's in an Algorithm? Empowering users through nutrition labels for recommender systems

Panelists discuss various ideas for reforming, including nutrition labels, friction, algorithmic interventions, and decentralized alternatives, with a deep dive into one particular area: how to dampen conflict feedback loops. Subscribe and turn on notifications to keep up with the Knight First Amendment Institute:   

 / @knightcolumbia   On April 28-29, 2023, the Knight Institute hosted a symposium to explore how online amplification works and to consider interventions that would mitigate some of the harms caused by amplification, or allow us to take fuller advantage of the benefits. The symposium, “Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society,” is a collaboration between the Knight Institute and the Institute’s Visiting Senior Research Scientist Arvind Narayanan.

Panelists: Luca Belli, Sator Labs and University of California, Berkeley Brett Frischmann, Villanova University Ravi Iyer, Psychology of Technology Institute Yoel Roth, University of California, Berkeley Moderator: Camille François, Columbia University