Un manuale per il cittadino del XXI secolo. Accessibile, piacevolmente critico, pertinente e urgente' - Financial Times 'Affascinante e profondamente inquietante' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year In questo bestseller del New York Times, Cathy O'Neil, una delle prime sostenitrici della responsabilità algoritmica, lancia un allarme sui modelli matematici che pervadono la vita moderna e minacciano di fare a pezzi il nostro tessuto sociale. Viviamo nell'era dell'algoritmo. Sempre più spesso, le decisioni che influenzano le nostre vite (dove andare a scuola, se ottenere un prestito, quanto pagare per l'assicurazione) non vengono prese da esseri umani, ma da modelli matematici. In teoria, questo dovrebbe portare a una maggiore equità: tutti vengono giudicati secondo le stesse regole e i pregiudizi vengono eliminati. Eppure, come rivela Cathy O'Neil in questo libro urgente e necessario, è vero il contrario. I modelli utilizzati oggi sono opachi, non regolamentati e incontestabili, anche quando sono sbagliati. La cosa più preoccupante è che rafforzano la discriminazione. Tracciando l'arco della vita di una persona, O'Neil espone i modelli di scatola nera che plasmano il nostro futuro, sia come individui che come società. Queste ''armi di distruzione matematica'' valutano insegnanti e studenti, ordinano CV, concedono o negano prestiti, valutano i lavoratori, prendono di mira gli elettori e monitorano la nostra salute. O'Neil invita i modellatori ad assumersi maggiori responsabilità per i loro algoritmi e i decisori politici a regolamentarne l'uso. Ma alla fine, tocca a noi diventare più esperti dei modelli che governano le nostre vite. Questo importante libro ci dà il potere di porre domande difficili, scoprire la verità e chiedere un cambiamento.
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Cathy O'Neil is the author of the bestselling Weapons of Math Destruction, which won the Euler Book Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award. She received her PhD in mathematics from Harvard and has worked in finance, tech, and academia. She launched the Lede Program for data journalism at Columbia University and recently founded ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company. O'Neil is a regular contributor to Bloomberg View.
A former Wall Street quant 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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