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Cathy O'Neil On Weapons of Math Destruction
Virtually Speaking - September 23, 2016 01:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judg...