The Economist asks: Is big data fundamentally racist?

Published: July 6, 2017, 4:19 p.m.

Algorithms are increasingly being used to make sense of the world. But does big data implicitly discriminate against people based on income, race or class? We ask Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy  


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