False positives - An investigation podcast by AFP Audio and Algorithm Watch
What would you do if you were suddenly cut off from all your bank accounts? And how would you feel if you found out that the decision to cut you off from your money was in part made by an algorithm?
This phenomenon is called de-banking. It can happen through a semi-automated decision-making process involving algorithms and AI. When mistakes are made by these systems, they are called “false positives”.
False positives - a podcast series produced by Algorithm Watch and AFP Audio - will take you on a journey across Europe.
From Spain, to France and the UK, from Turkey to Germany and Poland, we talked to those who battled to have mistakes overturned, and industry insiders who’ll lift the lid on how and why this is happening.
Listen to False positives, an investigation podcast presented in 3 episodes:
- Trailer
- Episode 1: Banking, by Kafka
- Episode 2: Mass Surveillance
- Episode 3: No Refuge
Journalists and researchers of both companies have worked on this project:
- for AFP: Benoît Pelegrin, Burcin Gercek and Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer
- for Algorithm Watch: Pablo Jimenez Arandia, Naiara Bellio, Nicolas Kayser-Bril Yasir Gökce, Mayra Russo, Mathilde Saliou
Host: Alex Cadier
Producer: Camille Kauffmann
Original music and sound design: Nicolas Vair
Podcast artwork: Julie Pereira
Executive producers: Naiara Bellio for AlgorithmWatch, Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer for AFP.
Translations: Natalie Handel, Joshua Melvin, Jean-Marc Mojon, Gregory Viscusi, Chris Wright, Joseph Schmid, Phillip Hazlewood.