Cathy O’Neil talks about how big data impacts people’s ability to get insurance in chapter nine of…Apr 17, 2021Apr 17, 2021
Blog 10 Collateral Damage: Landing CreditCathy O’Neil talks about how banks used to operate. Local bankers used to know all about your life. They would hear stories about you…Apr 15, 2021Apr 15, 2021
Blog 9 Sweating Bullets — AI and Worker’s LivesIn chapter 7, Cathy O’Neil says that efficiency focused WMDs are treating working as “cogs in a machine”. Businesses are analyzing…Apr 7, 2021Apr 7, 2021
Blog 8 Ineligible to ServeO’Neil explains in chapter 6 how she considers personality tests in hiring departments to be WMDS. These tests affect a widespread…Mar 27, 2021Mar 27, 2021
Blog 7 Justice in the Age of Big DataIn chapter 5 of Weapons of Math Destruction, O’Neil explains how Predpol’s crime prediction software unfairly treats the poor or…Mar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021
Blog 6: Online AdvertisingIn this chapter, O’Neil discusses the predatory nature of online advertising. To begin with, for-profit colleges used them to target poor…Mar 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021
Going to CollegeIn theory, formulas may appear to be harmless. The problem is that when these seemingly innocuous formulas are applied to a population as…Mar 6, 2021Mar 6, 2021
Blog 4 Financial Crisis and Big DataCathy O’Neil became disillusioned with WMD’s when she started working for a hedge fund. Everything there was run by math. O’Neil loved…Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021
Bias in AI modelsAccording to O’Neil, an AI model is “nothing more than an abstract representation of some process”. It doesn’t matter if the model is…Feb 22, 2021Feb 22, 2021
Inventing AI with EthicsIf I could invent something that requires AI, it would be a robot that can catch fish for you. It would have cameras that can see the…Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021