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Weapons of Math Destruction - How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Paperback)
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Weapons of Math Destruction - How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Paperback)
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New York Times Bestseller 'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' -
Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year 'A manual for the
21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant
and urgent' - Federica Cocco, Financial Times A former Wall Street
quant 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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