Blog 11: No Safe ZoneCathy O’Niel pointed to injustices in insurance providers because they are using credit scores as proxies for quality of driving…Apr 19, 2021Apr 19, 2021
Blog 10: Collateral DamageCathy ONeil described two main models which are used in the financial industry, FICO scores, and e-scores. FICO scores are based on…Apr 15, 2021Apr 15, 2021
Blog 9 Sweating BulletsOf all the WMDs that Cathy O’Neil has pointed out in her book, this one seems by far the most pernicious and difficult to deal with. The…Apr 6, 2021Apr 6, 2021
Blog 8 Ineligible to ServeCathy O’Neil Says that personality tests are used to eliminate potential candidates for jobs. These tests are usually designed to screen…Mar 29, 2021Mar 29, 2021
Blog 7 Justice in the age of big dataCathy O’Neil described the PredPol algorithms as utilizing nuisance infraction data to pad the model’s prediction algorithms. Because the…Mar 24, 2021Mar 24, 2021
Blog 6 Online Advertising and Machine LearningThe first way that she mentioned in the book was through predatory ad campaigns for low-income people to go to colleges. She said that…Mar 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021
Blog 5; going to collegeA major point that O’Neil wrote about was how the generation of the ranking algorithm created its own rat race. Basically because it…Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021
Blog 4 Financial Crisis and Big DataCathy O’Neil became disillusioned with WMDs predominantly during the financial crisis of 2008. She described the crisis happening because…Mar 3, 2021Mar 3, 2021
Bias and AI ModelsIn her book “Weapons of Math Destruction,” O’Neil describes the bias in AI models as inserted by the creators of the AI. The whole point…Feb 24, 2021Feb 24, 2021
EECS 649: Blog Post 2An invention I would like to make would be an AI driven, long term investment bot. As of right now AI trading is limited to the equities…Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021