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A review by chrysemys
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
4.0
Infuriating. In spite of the fact that the author ends with a list of suggestions for ways we can regulate or otherwise detoxify the use of the algorithms she calls WMDs, I continue to hear in my head the chorus of "We're fucked, we're so fucked" that reading this book has only intensified.
This book does what it sets out to do: describes the areas of life (almost all of them) in which algorithms can and do unfairly penalize people for being poor or not of the preferred skin tone. It was a broad but fairly shallow survey; I would have enjoyed a bit more depth on the specifics of so-called data science.
Published in 2016/17... I'm sure by now O'Neil has quite a bit more to say about subsequent events.
This book does what it sets out to do: describes the areas of life (almost all of them) in which algorithms can and do unfairly penalize people for being poor or not of the preferred skin tone. It was a broad but fairly shallow survey; I would have enjoyed a bit more depth on the specifics of so-called data science.
Published in 2016/17... I'm sure by now O'Neil has quite a bit more to say about subsequent events.