Question

In nearly every chapter, the author outlines the purported reasonableness of each WMD before raising her own objections to it. Were you surprised by any of O’Neill’s objections? Were there any you feel were unfair? Any you feel did not go far enough?

Answer 1

In Weapon of Destruction mathematician O Neill explain how multiply the chaos and misfortune, adding efficiency and scale to various system throughout society. She said that each person have thousands of mental nodem,when a person seeks to externalize and distribute a model, one must formalize model with math, pick relevant data and load model with appropriate response to anomalies as possible.

Author highlights how army of dangerous maths model, they promised efficiency ,bona fide act and benefit of people are actually spreading bias and terror across the globe.

O'Neill well said about the online advertisement that how with the help of math models, profit colleges prey on low income and immigrant students with their advertisement, how things sell with false promises.WMD takes advantage of their vulnerability, subjecting them to theft and abuse.

O' Neill give opinion about the crime, she explained instead of simply trying to eradicate crime,cops should be attempting to build relationships in the neighborhood.

Considering the case of insurance,she explain how companies are exploiting poor and minorities. She also dive into discussion how algorithm used by leading companies such as Facebook, Google,Alple , Amazon makes them immensely powerful.

WMD critically open the door on the harsh truth of exploiting algorithm that have spread all around the world.

O'Neill is right in saying mathematical models should be our tools and not our masters.

She discussed about those effect of using of algorithm which are hiding under the sheet. Apart from usual characteristics of being logical, profitable and efficient algorithm should also be transparent open to audits and fundamentally moral.