Kartik Hosanagar talks with VentureBeat about "A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence," his book about how algorithms shape our lives and how to fight back.

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You can tell Instagram to forget what it thinks about you. The Meta app now allows you to fix your feed with just a couple clicks.

But we do think that considering these ideas throughout the design, implementation, and release cycles of development will lead to more socially responsible deployment of algorithms in society.

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Outside academia, these algorithms are widely used as well, to study harassment in online forums and infer the demographics of political donors, for instance. But what do these algorithms really do?