What makes an algorithm terrifying? My guest today, mega-bestselling author of "Weapons of Math Destruction" Dr. Cathy O'Neil, says it's not the complexity of the math; it's the secrecy, the unaccountability and the fact that you can't opt out.

More on Dr. O'Neil:
• A decade after her "Weapons of Math Destruction" (2016) sounded the alarm on algorithmic harm, she's busier than ever.
• Through her algorithmic-auditing firm ORCAA and her nonprofit OCEAN, she now provides the statistical evidence behind lawsuits against some of the world's biggest tech companies.
• Co-hosts the "A.I. Skeptics" podcast.
• Also wrote "The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation", which was published in 2022 (like WMD, also by Penguin Random House).
• Before writing trade publications, her first book was actually an O'Reilly book, "Doing Data Science".
• Earlier in her career, she held academic positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barnard College before becoming a Wall-Street analyst at The D. E. Shaw Group.

In this episode, Cathy:
• Punctures A.I. hype.
• Explains why A.I. won't so much replace workers as degrade them.
• Lays out how all of us can demand accountability.

I wanted to have this exceptional conversation with Dr. O'Neil for a decade, enjoy!

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