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⚖️ When the Math Decides: Algorithms, Liberty, and the Fight to Stay Human
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Your childcare just got cancelled by math. No human saw your file. Welcome to the episode that explains why — and what's fighting back.
A deep dive into artificial intelligence, human rights law, and the invisible architecture shaping your daily life.
What the SyRI ruling gave us, beyond justice for the people it harmed, was a mirror. Held up to every government and corporation in the world, it showed us what happens when we hand moral authority to an algorithm without legal constraint.
For years, the tech industry managed this mirror by placing a fig leaf in front of it called ethics. And the ethics documents were beautiful — glossy, thoughtful, full of sincere-sounding language about dignity and fairness. They just weren't enforceable.
HANDBOOK ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Independent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter. Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas.
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