Author(s): FRY, HANNAH Publisher: W W NORTON, Year: 2018 ISBN: 9780393634990,039363499X
Contents |
A note on the title |
Introduction |
Power |
Data |
Justice |
Medicine |
Cars |
Crime |
Art |
Conclusion |
Acknowledgements |
Photograph Credits |
Notes |
Index |
In this book, we’ll discover the vast array of algorithms on which we increasingly, but perhaps unknowingly, rely. We’ll pay close attention to their claims, examine their undeclared power and confront the unanswered questions they raise. We’ll encounter algorithms used by police to decide who should be arrested, which make us choose between protecting the victims of crime and the innocence of the accused. We’ll meet algorithms used by judges to decide on the sentences of convicted criminals, which ask us to decide what our justice system should look like. We’ll find algorithms used by doctors to over-rule their own diagnoses; algorithms within driverless cars that insist we define our morality; algorithms that are weighing in on our expressions of emotion; and algorithms with the power to undermine our democracies.