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The phrases '''algorithmic transparency''' and '''algorithmic accountability'''<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Diakopoulos|first1=Nicholas|title=Algorithmic Accountability: Journalistic Investigation of Computational Power Structures.|journal=Digital Journalism|date=2015|volume=3|issue=3|page=398-415}}</ref> are sometimes used interchangeably---especially since they were coined by the same people---but they have subtly different meanings. Specifically '''algorithmic transparency''' states that the inputs to the algorithm and the algorithm's use itself must be known, but they need not be fair. '''Algorithmic accountability''' implies that the organizations that use algorithms must be accountable for the decisions made by those algorithms, even though the decisions are being made by a machine, and not by a human being.<ref name="Dickey">{{cite news|last1=Dickey|first1=Megan Rose|title=Algorithmic Accountability|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/30/algorithmic-accountability/|accessdate=4 September 2017|work=TechCrunch|date=30 April 2017}}</ref>
Current research around algorithmic transparency interested in both societal effects of accessing remote services running algorithms.<ref>{{cite web|title=Workshop on Data and Algorithmic Transparency|url=http://datworkshop.org/|accessdate=4 January 2017|date=2015}}</ref>, as well as mathematical and computer science approaches that can be used to achieve algorithmic transparency<ref>{{cite web|title=Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning|url=http://www.fatml.org/|accessdate=29 May 2017|date=2015}}</ref> In the United States, the [[Federal Trade Commission]]'s Bureau of Consumer Protection studies how algorithms are used by consumers by conducting its own research on algorithmic transparency and by funding external research.<ref name="Noyes">{{cite news|last1=Noyes|first1=Katherine|title=The FTC is worried about algorithmic transparency, and you should be too|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/2908372/the-ftc-is-worried-about-algorithmic-transparency-and-you-should-be-too.html|accessdate=4 September 2017|work=PCWorld|date=9 April 2015|language=en}}</ref>
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