Domingos: A Venture Capital Fund Appointed an Algorithm as a Voting Director
Pedro Domingos · #13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines · Aug 30, 2016 · at 4:29
Pedro Domingos describes an instance of algorithmic governance in venture capital to Shane Parrish.
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“For example, there's this venture fund recently that announced that one of their directors is now going to be an algorithm. There's seven directors on the board, and one of them's an algorithm. So their algorithm doesn't decide anything all by itself, but it does have a vote as much as any one of the humans”
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