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EVENT DETAILS |
5:30 pm Reception
6:00 pm Program
7:15 pm Reception and book-signing
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives where we go to school, whether or not we get a job or a car loan, how much we pay for health 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. But as data scientist Cathy O'Neil shows in her revealing book, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality (Crown, September 6, 2016), the opposite is true.
What can we do to ensure that algorithms don't reinforce discrimination, and instead are embedded with values that promote fairness and equity? Join us for this special book launch, featuring a conversation with Dorian Warren and author Cathy O'Neil, to discuss this question and more.
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