Weapons of Math Destruction - O'Neil, Cathy
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
KORTE INHOUD
'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year
'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Federica Cocco, Financial Times
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 sha...
'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Federica Cocco, Financial Times
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 sha...
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2016Uitgever: Rodopi, Editions272 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 210x150x22ISBN-10: 0241296811ISBN-13: 9780241296813Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback. xii,260 pp.; 21.5x13.5 cm. Text in English. - (used, some dog-ears) Although (very) good, see picture 300 [Auteur: O'Neil, Cathy.] [Uitgever: Allen Lane / Penguin Press] [Jaar: 2016] [Titel: Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.]
