This podcast features highlights from Cathy O'Neil's LSE Public Lecture.
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - whether we get a job or a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made 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 her new book, which she will talk about in this lecture, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination, creating a toxic cocktail for democracy.
Date: Monday 3 July 2017
#LSEmaths
Speaker:
🔴 Dr Cathy O'Neil
Chair:
🔴 Professor Martin Anthony
ℹ️ More info: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2017/07/...