Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Condition:Like New wildlife and language

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Condition:Like New wildlife and languageA former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip apart our social fabric. In this urgent and necessary book, Cathy O'Neil reveals how the models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and incontestable, leading to discrimination and reinforcing inequality. She calls on modellers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policymakers to regulate their use, while