A technology expert gives four suggestions on how to rein in algorithms

“I hear a lot that algorithms are powerful technologies, and the companies are monopolies, and we are helpless against them, and Google is the only option,” says Kartik Hosanagar, a professor of technology and digital business at the University of Pennsylvania. “I’m trying to say that we aren’t.”
Hosanagar is the author of A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control, which comes out March