Stephen Downes

This is a technology that will have an impact on education and development, Automated decision systems will evaluate individual competences based on public performance and will most like prescribe training or development activities. What factors need to be taken into consideration. Irving Wladawsky-Berger points to recent work by David Parkes addressing the need, and summarizes it under five headings: how algorithmic decisions are interpreted, how outcomes are monitored and assessed, how such systems are regulated, education and workforce implications, and algorithm research.