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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil

Start date: July 20, 2021

Finish date: August 17, 2021

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Apr 11, 2022 Maisie Han rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science, non-fiction, audio-books, authors-female

Many moons ago, I saw the blue-haired Miss O'Neil promoting this very book at the Brooklyn Book Festival and at that time I was only barely aware of the implications of sharing my data so willingly with big corporations. Fast forward to 2022, I am more weary of doing so but still can't help but think that my browser and eaves-dropping social media apps know me better than my own family does. Although published nearly 6 years ago, the examples she illustrates are just as relevant and it scares me ...more

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Apr 24, 2024 Fares rated it it was amazing

Shelves: politics, books-based-on-authors-research, favorites, burrowed, non-fiction, ethics, ai-and-ml, technology, economics-finance

A truly remarkable book on the topic. Cathy O’Neil dives into the harmful side of algorithms at mass scale in an excellent and very elegant manner. She covers many domains where potentially harmful large scale algorithms exert their effects. I highly recommend this book.

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