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Weapons of Math Destruction

by Cathy O'Neil

How opaque algorithms in hiring, lending, policing and education encode bias and punish the poor at scale. Clear, early and influential.

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Opacity plus scale plus damage.
Models encode choices.
Demand audits.

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Algorithms that harm.

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