Weapons of math destruction

how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy

Paperback, 259 pages

English language

Published Nov. 16, 2016 by Allen Lane.

ISBN:
978-0-241-29681-3
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OCLC Number:
958464372

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Big data
  • Social aspects
  • Human behavior
  • Mathematical models
  • Algorithms
  • Données volumineuses
  • Aspect social
  • Comportement humain
  • Modèles mathématiques
  • Algorithmes

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