Weapons of Math DestructionCall Number: Click on title to open the ebook
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
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, but the opposite is true.