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Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job

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Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job

The Guardian’s published a long excerpt from Cathy O’Neil’s essential new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, in which O’Neil describes the way that shoddy machine-learning companies have come to dominate waged employment hiring, selling their dubious products to giant companies that use them to decide who can and can’t work.

Source: Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job / Boing Boing

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