Description
In an age when algorithms influence education, employment, credit, policing, health care, and political engagement, mathematical models increasingly determine who receives opportunities—and who is left behind. Drawing on experience in finance and data science, the author examines how opaque, unregulated systems can magnify bias, punish vulnerable communities, and create self-reinforcing cycles of inequality. Through compelling real-world examples, the book explores the social and ethical consequences of big data while challenging modelers, policymakers, and citizens to demand greater transparency, accountability, and fairness. Urgent and accessible, it is both a revealing investigation of algorithmic power and a call to understand—and challenge—the systems shaping modern life.
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hardcover
Crown Publishing Group NY
Published Sep 6, 2016
272 pages
ISBN: 9780553418811
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First Published
2016
Language
eng
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Content and trigger warnings for Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil.