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'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Financial Times

'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year

In this New York Times bestseller, Cathy O'Neil, one of the first champions of algorithmic accountability, 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 teachers and students, sort CVs, grant or deny loans, evaluate workers, target voters, and monitor our health.

O'Neil calls on modellers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9780141985411
BY (AUTHOR) O'Neil, Cathy
PUBLISHER : Penguin Books Ltd	PUBLICATION DATE : June 19, 2017
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT : Penguin Books Ltd
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : Tertiary Education
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm
WEIGHT : 202 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Computing & Information Technology
Economics, Finance, Business & Management
Mathematics & Science
Society & Social Sciences

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