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Kare Anderson

Kare Anderson

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From the 2008 crash to prison sentencing reforms, the provocative book, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, describes the downsides of increasingly used algorithms that “sorts winners and losers,” and need built-in feed-back loops (and more) to not exacerbate the very problems the algorithms were designed to reform. Kudos Cathy O’Neil (@mathbabedotorg) and here’s to hearing from you and others on more ways to optimize the upside of big data analytics and algorithms and reduce the downsides.
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Link to interview with author:

I just listened to the HBR podcast interview with Cathy O’Neil and found it fascinating. Here’s a link for other podcast nerds: https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/10/when-not-to-trust-the-algorithm.html

 

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