TY - BOOK AU - O'Neil, Cathy TI - Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy SN - 9780241296813 U1 - 005.07 PY - 2016/// CY - UK PB - Allen Lane Publication KW - Humanities and Social Science KW - Democracy N1 - We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get 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 ER -