Cathy O'Neil

Shame is being weaponised by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight back. Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O'Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous...

A former Wall Street data scientist 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—whether we get a job or a loan, how much we pay for insurance—are being made by mathematical models. In theory, this...