Book

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O’Neil

What happens when opaque scoring systems are pointed at sentencing, hiring and credit. Written by a quant who left finance for exactly this reason, which is why it lands harder than most of the genre.

• Artificial intelligence
• Risk

1 idea from this book

• ArgumentArtificial intelligence

  A model trained on a biased outcome will reproduce it at scale

  A model predicts the past decisions in its training data; if those were biased, the model is a bias machine with a straight face.

  Any model used on people, credit underwriting, hiring tools, and AI governance questions in a bank.