Tompkins County Public Library’s Truth Be Told Non-Fiction Book Club will meet Tuesday, August 1 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Library’s Tompkins Trust Company Study Room for a discussion of “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” by Cathy O’Neil.
O’ Neil’s highly acclaimed “Weapons of Math Destruction,” is the
most timely and important of her three books on data, shining a light on the
unregulated and uncontested models that determine—based on algorithms, rather
than individual merit—what members of society are eligible for mortgages,
student loans and even affordable health insurance. A former Wall Street quant,
O’Neil argues that big data is endangering democracy and perpetuating a cycle
of inequity by buoying the rich while limiting access and opportunities for the
poor.
The Truth Be Told Non-Fiction Book Club is free and open to the
public. Limited copies of the book are available for new and existing
Club members at the Library’s Information and Learning Service’s Reference
Desk.
For more information, visit http://tcpl.org/events-exhibits/book-clubs-nonfiction.php
or contact Tom Burns at tburns@tcpl.org.
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