https://medium.com/edge-of-innovation/should-we-be-treating-algorithms-the-same-way-we-treat-hazardous-chemicals-e39b5d02112c

Andrew MaynardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingMar 5If algorithms have the potential to cause harm, do we need new risk assessment tools to ensure their safe use?At first blush, algorithms and hazardous chemicals have precious little in common. One is created out of computer code, and exists in cyberspace; the other is made up of atoms and molecules, and forms a very real part of the world we physically inhabit.

Yet despite these differences, both have an uncanny ability to impact our lives in ways that are neither desirable, nor always easy to predict. And because of this, there are surprising similarities in how the risks associated with the development and use of algorithms might be assessed.