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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules. But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination--propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process.
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Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil
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- Released
- 2016
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Cathy O’Neil
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0451497333
- ISBN13
- 9780451497338
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Technology & Engineering, Science & Math, Computers & Internet, Politics, Science, Mathematics, Technology, Sociology, Gifts for grandpa, Police, Crime Rate, Discrimination, Algorithms, Financial Crisis, Elections, Models, Injustice, Big Data
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
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- We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules. But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination--propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process.