"Only people can trust, but only machines scale well. Today’s websites and apps are built to compensate for an absence of trust, rather than to support its growth."Instead we have the 'I accept' button: "we know we are lying the moment we touch it, as does the author of the legalese no one expects anyone to read. Navigatin…

Over the coming years, we’ll see the BBC develop and roll-out more and more machine learning algorithms for storing, retrieving, tagging and possibly even creating content.... What if we lock our audiences in to what they just want to hear, never challenging them? ... Should the algorithms we use be open to public scrutiny?... inform our own thin…