Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (PDF) (Print)

We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our livesÑwhere we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insuranceÑare 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.