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Weapons of Math Destruction Event Challenges Accuracy of Algorithms

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星空无限传媒’s Creative Research Center,聽the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship and Residence Life聽presented the Fifth Annual Symposium on the Imagination, “Weapons of Math Destruction:聽What is an Algorithm?” on April 14, featuring Harvard PhD and author Cathy O’Neil.

The writer of the upcoming book “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,” O’Neil explored what algorithms are (and are not), how they are built, their positive and negative effects, and the ways we can examine them for fairness and ethical behavior.

Click here to read highlighting the event, Cathy O’Neil, and 星空无限传媒 University professor Dr. Neil Baldwin.