Exhibition
Can algorithms guarantee greater neutrality and efficiency? Are they as free from human bias as we tend to think? How can we make our humanity prevail in a calculated world?
This exhibition seeks to make this phenomenon and its implications understandable, encouraging reflection and debate.
In recent years, the words “code” and “algorithms” are present in many news and conversations around us. Algorithms make decisions, and we all take for granted their growing role in innumerable aspects of our lives at the same time that we are unaware of their nature and implications. In a world organized on the basis of measurements and calculations, in which our lives can be reduced to comparable patterns and standardized, how can we guarantee that human beings, with their human capacities, continue to be at the center of decisions?
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The exhibition Algorithms and code. Wisdom in a calculated world seeks to make this phenomenon and its implications understandable, generating questions and knowledge that invite reflection and debate. Can algorithms guarantee greater neutrality and efficiency? Are they as free from human bias as we often think? Why do humans trust decisions made by machines more than by other humans?