Education and Bias - the Pichai Testimony
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, was asked by Rep. King of Iowa to provide the names of the 1000 employees who work on the search engine algorithm so they could be evaluated for political bias. There is no need because the answer is clear: yes, there is bias. Thousands of pages of research have been done on this issue. The more educated you are the more likely you are to identify yourself as Democrat or to feel aligned with the principles of the Democratic party. This is not because colleges indoctrinate students as part of vast conspiracy, it is because educated people understand that the world works better when both physics and tolerance are understood and used to make the world work better. There is an argument for not educating people. There is an argument that technology has harmed us all by allowing the human population to increase and by creating machines of war and industry that kill, pollute, and confuse. Since the industrial revolution began skeptics have wondered if technolog...