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Who's Running The Show?: Kartik Hosanagar's "A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence"

From shopping on Amazon, to chilling with a show on Netflix, and even dating websites, writer Kartik Hosanagar tells us that algorithms, the programming behind how these web applications work, aren’t just “recommending” things to us: they’re guiding our choices. Kartik Hosanager is a professor of technology, digital business and marketing at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His new book is A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms are Shaping Our Lives and What We Can Do to Control Them.