Health Quote by Cathy O'Neil

With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health…

— Cathy O'Neil

“They draw statistical correlations between a person’s zip code or language patterns and her potential to pay back a loan or handle a job.…

— Cathy O'Neil

I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified…

— Cathy O'Neil

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the…

— Cathy O'Neil

“model’s blind spots reflect the judgments and priorities of its creators. While the choices in Google Maps and avionics software appear cut and dried,…

— Cathy O'Neil

I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging…

— Cathy O'Neil

We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized…

— Cathy O'Neil

“Employers, for example, are increasingly using credit scores to evaluate potential hires. Those who pay their bills promptly, the thinking goes, are more likely…

— Cathy O'Neil

Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.

— Cathy O'Neil

It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning,…

— Cathy O'Neil

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

— Cathy O'Neil

“The algorithms would make sure that those deemed losers would remain that way. A lucky minority would gain ever more control over the data…

— Cathy O'Neil