The Economist asks: Is big data fundamentally racist?

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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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