I don't think the author would necessarily disagree w …more It's a primer on the development and consequences of using algorithms to make complex decisions. Zach It's a primer on the development and consequences of using algorithms to make complex decisions. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination-propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process.more In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules.īut as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they're wrong.
Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives-where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance-are being made not by humans, but by machines. But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O We live in the age of the algorithm. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules.
