Garrett WolfeCathy O’Neil talks about how big data impacts people’s ability to get insurance in chapter nine of…2 min read·Apr 17, 2021----
Garrett WolfeBlog 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…2 min read·Apr 15, 2021----
Garrett WolfeBlog 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…2 min read·Apr 7, 2021----
Garrett WolfeBlog 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…2 min read·Mar 27, 2021----
Garrett WolfeBlog 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…2 min read·Mar 19, 2021----
Garrett WolfeBlog 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…2 min read·Mar 17, 2021----
Garrett WolfeGoing to CollegeIn theory, formulas may appear to be harmless. The problem is that when these seemingly innocuous formulas are applied to a population as…2 min read·Mar 6, 2021----
Garrett WolfeBlog 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…2 min read·Mar 4, 2021----
Garrett WolfeBias 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…2 min read·Feb 22, 2021----
Garrett WolfeInventing 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…2 min read·Feb 15, 2021----