BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:David Robinson will discuss his new book "Voices in the Code:&n bsp\;A Story About People\, Their Values\, and the Algorithm They Made."Al gorithms – rules written into software – shape key moments in our lives: f rom who gets hired or admitted to a top public school\, to who should go t o jail or receive scarce public benefits. Such decisions are both technica l and moral. Today\, the logic of high stakes software is rarely open to s crutiny\, and central moral questions are often left for the technical exp erts to answer. Policymakers and scholars are seeking better ways to share the moral decision-making within high stakes software — exploring ideas l ike public participation\, transparency\, forecasting\, and algorithmic au dits. But there are few real examples of those techniques in use."Voices i n the Code" is the story of how one community built a life-and-death algor ithm in a relatively inclusive\, accountable way. Between 2004 and 2014 pa tients\, surgeons\, clinicians\, data scientists\, public officials and ad vocates collaborated and compromised to build a new transplant matching al gorithm – a system to offer donated kidneys to particular patients from th e U.S. national waiting list. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders\ , unpublished archives\, and multiple scholarly disciplines\, I show how t his new Kidney Allocation System emerged and evolved over time. Participan ts gradually built a shared understanding both of what was possible\, and of what would be fair. The story ultimately illustrates both the promise a nd the limits of participation\, transparency\, forecasting and auditing o f high stakes software. I'll conclude with some lessons for the broader st ruggle to build technology in a democratic and accountable way.About the s peaker:DAVID G. ROBINSON is a visiting scholar at the Social Science Matri x at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a member of the faculty at Apple University. From 2018 to 2021\, he wrote his first book\, "Voice s in the Code\," as a visiting scientist at Cornell’s AI Policy and Practi ce Project. DTEND:20221013T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T061725Z DTSTART:20221013T190000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:David Robinson: Community Input in the Design of Algorithms UID:RFCALITEM639141490450462494 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

David Robinson will discuss his new book "V oices in the Code: \;A Story About People\, Their Values\, and the Algorithm They Made."

Algo rithms – rules written into software – shape key moments in our lives: fro m who gets hired or admitted to a top public school\, to who should go to jail or receive scarce public benefits. Such decisions are both technical and moral. Today\, the logic of high stakes software is rarely open to scr utiny\, and central moral questions are often left for the technical exper ts to answer. Policymakers and scholars are seeking better ways to share t he moral decision-making within high stakes software — exploring ideas lik e public participation\, transparency\, forecasting\, and algorithmic audi ts. But there are few real examples of those techniques in use.

"Voices in the Code" is the story of how one community built a lif e-and-death algorithm in a relatively inclusive\, accountable way. Between 2004 and 2014 patients\, surgeons\, clinicians\, data scientists\, public officials and advocates collaborated and compromised to build a new trans plant matching algorithm – a system to offer donated kidneys to particular patients from the U.S. national waiting list. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders\, unpublished archives\, and multiple scholarly disciplin es\, I show how this new Kidney Allocation System emerged and evolved over time. Participants gradually built a shared understanding both of what wa s possible\, and of what would be fair. The story ultimately illustrates b oth the promise and the limits of participation\, transparency\, forecasti ng and auditing of high stakes software. I'll conclude with some lessons f or the broader struggle to build technology in a democratic and accountabl e way.

About the speaker:

DAVID G. ROBINSON is a visiting scholar at the Social Science Matrix at th e University of California\, Berkeley\, and a member of the faculty at App le University. From 2018 to 2021\, he wrote his first book\, "Voices in th e Code\," as a visiting scientist at Cornell’s AI Policy and Practice Proj ect.

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