'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly
critical, relevant and urgent' - Financial Times 'Fascinating and
deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year
In this New York Times bestseller, Cathy O'Neil, one of the first
champions of algorithmic accountability, sounds an alarm on the
mathematical models that pervade modern life -- and threaten to rip
apart our social fabric. We live in the age of the algorithm.
Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to
school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are
being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory,
this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according
to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. And yet, as Cathy O'Neil
reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true.
The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and
incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they
reinforce discrimination. Tracing the arc of a person's life,
O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as
individuals and as a society. These "weapons of math destruction"
score teachers and students, sort CVs, grant or deny loans,
evaluate workers, target voters, and monitor our health. O'Neil
calls on modellers to take more responsibility for their algorithms
and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up
to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives.
This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover
the truth, and demand change.
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