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Vivimos en la edad del algoritmo. Cada vez más, lasdecisiones que afectan nuestras vidas no están hechaspor humanos, sino por modelos matemáticos. En teoría, esto debería conducir a una mayor equidad: todos son juzgados de acuerdo con las mismas reglas y se elimina el sesgo. Pero como revela Cathy O'Neil en ''Armas de destrucción matemática'', ocurre exactamente locontrario. Los modelos que se utilizan en la actualidad son opacos, no regulados e incontestables, inclusocuando están equivocados. Los modelos están apuntalando a los afortunados y castigando a los oprimidos, creando un ''cóctel tóxico para la democracia''. Bienvenido al lado oscuro de Big Data.
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In this New York Times bestseller, Cathy O'Neil, one of the first champions of algorithmic accountability, sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life -- and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for 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.And yet, as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination. 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 CVs, grant or deny loans, evaluate workers, target voters, and monitor our health.O'Neil calls on modellers 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. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change.
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