03431cam a2200385 i 4500 112520 112520 127486 BJBSDDR 20230411090113.0 160315s2017 nyu b 001 0 eng 9780553418835 (pbk) BJBSDDR eng QA 76.9 O58w 2017 005.7 O'Neil, Cathy, 3994 1972- Weapons of math destruction : how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy / Cathy O'Neil. New York : Broadway Books, 2017. 275 p. ; 20 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-252) and index. Bomb parts: What is a model? -- Shell shocked: My journey of disillusionment -- Arms race: Going to college -- Propaganda machine: Online advertising -- Civilian casualties: Justice in the age of big data -- Ineligible to serve: Getting a job -- Sweating bullets: On the job -- Collateral damage: Landing credit -- No safe zone: Getting insurance -- The targeted citizen: Civic life. We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives -- where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance -- are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and uncontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination: If a poor student can't get a loan because a lending model deems him too risky (by virtue of his zip code), he's then cut off from the kind of education that could pull him out of poverty, and a vicious spiral ensues. Models are propping up the lucky and punishing the downtrodden, creating a 'toxic cocktail for democracy.' Welcome to the dark side of Big Data. Tracing the arc of a person's life, O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These 'weapons of math destruction' score teachers and students, sort résumés, grant (or deny) loans, evaluate workers, target voters, set parole, and monitor our health. O'Neil calls on modelers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives Big data Social aspects United States. Big data Political aspects United States. Social indicators Mathematical models Moral and ethical aspects. Democracy United States. Big data Estados Unidos 1639 Administración de bases de datos Aspectos sociales Estados Unidos 3996 Administración de bases de datos Aspectos políticos Estados Unidos 3997 Indicadores sociales Modelos matemáticos 3995 Democracia Estados Unidos. 2833 United States Social conditions 21st century. Estados Unidos Condiciones sociales Siglo XXI 2135 Online version: O'Neil, Cathy, author. Weapons of math destruction First edition. New York : Crown Publishers, [2016] 9780553418828 (DLC) 2016016487 lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2019-05-13 0 QA 76.9 O58w 2017 00000123707 2019-05-13 00:00:00 1 2019-05-13 BK