Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents
&gt; &quot;[A]lgorithms are made by people and the results ... were reviewed multiple times by people,&quot;<p>You got that right. The way they talk about &quot;an algorithm did it&quot; makes it seem as as if they think that somehow explains it, like there was only one algorithm possible handed down from god or something.<p>We&#x27;ll be seeing more and more of this of course. &quot;We can&#x27;t be blamed, it was an algorithm! We can&#x27;t be blamed for trusting in the algorithm, because everyone knows algorithms are objective, right?&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure &quot;laypeople&quot; realize that, especially in this particular case, &quot;algorithm&quot; is just a fancy word for &quot;formula&quot;.   Right, you MADE the formula, and it was wrong.