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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Women an old-fashioned farm outside aWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules. But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and