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Cathy O’Neil, Data Scientist, joins host Dan Loney to discuss the “dark side” of big data as outlined in her book “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality, and Threatens”: our daily lives are now being governed by algorithms and not humans, and as such she urges policy makers for more regulation over their design on Knowledge at Wharton.

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