Why conspiracy theories might be right: The algorithms behind everything

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🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Cathy O'Neil, author of "Weapons of Math Destruction", talks to Chuck about the bias behind mathematical algorithms and asks whether it's time for a digital Bill of Rights.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:04.4	Meet the press.
0:05.2	Meet the press.
0:09.4	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.4	My guest today is Cathy O'Neill.
0:14.9	She's a data scientist, but she's a lot more than that.
0:17.3	She's author of a book that may become an award-winning
0:22.6	national book.
0:23.8	It's certainly nominated to be won.
0:25.9	It's called Weapons of Math Destruction.
0:29.2	A big focus of her work shows how algorithms, the messy computer
0:34.8	program that, well, this size, everything that we do these days,
0:38.5	how these algorithms can cause havoc.
0:40.6	It's something we saw last month having
0:43.7	to do with the stock market volatility.
0:45.5	But it can also have an impact on online job applications
0:49.1	and how they're processed.
0:50.5	Or what we've talked about quite a bit,
0:52.7	what news Facebook shows you and how
0:56.3	police are even dispatched to handle crime.
0:59.9	So Cathy, welcome to 1947.
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