Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Milady and no memory forgotten

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Publication Date: 21 Jul 2008

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Milady and no memory forgottenWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our liveswhere we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insuranceare 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 ONeil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and