I very much like the book by Cathy O’Neil title ‘Weapons of Math Destruction‘. The book basically shows that many algorithms used in our surroundings do rather reinforce racism and discrimination, creating huge social disruption and reinforcing social differences.
The book is quite pessimistic at time, still I believe it make a point. And we probably don’t realize how much we are surrounded by algorithms that have a direct impact in real life, like for example software used by police to decide where to be more present, or software used for college and university admission, or software used to filter our resumes.
This books comes as part of a growing trend of concerns about how much software may destroy humanity (such as in this post ‘Technology is Breaking Humanity‘. The positive reaction around this topic will certainly become a mainstream trend in 2018.
