Alex Engler

“If it’s harder to make a whole bunch of money as a snake oil company, there’ll be fewer of them. The more responsible companies will pick up that market share, and everybody wins.”

“There are parts that machine learning can probably help with, but fully automated interviews, where you’re making inferences about job performance—that’s terrible. Modern artificial intelligence can’t make those inferences.”

On the lack of transparency around algorithms: For companies, it’s often “an intentional move to centralize power, save them money and … deflect accountability. And as a customer, you’re losing influence, because it’s harder to interrogate the process.”

“The fact that there are technologists on the transition teams means that the whole process of rebuilding the government includes technology from the start.”