Predicting the pasta philosophical critique of predictive analytics

  1. Daniel Innerarity 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Journal:
IDP: revista de Internet, derecho y política = revista d'Internet, dret i política

ISSN: 1699-8154

Year of publication: 2023

Issue Title: "Digitalització i algoritmització de la justícia"

Issue: 39

Type: Article

DOI: 10.7238/IDP.V0I39.409672 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

If we address this topic from a conceptual and critical point of view, we need to address three issues: 1)why predictions are too often right, 2) why, at the same time, they are so often mistaken, and 3) what consequences arise from the fact that our instruments for prediction ignore at least four realities that must be true about future forecasts or at least be conscious of their limits: a) that individuals cannot be fully subsumed into categories, b) that their future behaviour tends to have unpredictable dimensions, c) that propensity is not the same as causality and d) that democratic societies must make the desire to anticipate the future compatible with respect for the open nature of the future.

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