KATHMANDU, March 11: The government has proposed an increase in fines for traffic violations, ranging from 50 to 150 percent. This proposal is part of the draft of the Bill, 2080 BS, which aims to establish new regulations for vehicles and transportation.

Algorithms will soon be a big part of human society. It is already being used to determine what people see on online platforms, detect traffic violations on the busy streets of cosmopolitan cities, suggest posts on social media, and fire unproductive employees. The general thinking is that the evaluations made by algorithms are objective and unbiased because they analyze huge amounts of data to make decisions.  This, however, is an incorrect assumption. Since people write software codes, human-biases often transfer in algorithms potentially threatening liberal democracy.