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The era of blind faith in big data must end | Cathy O'Neil

TED

Cathy O'Neil's TED talk popularizes 'weapons of math destruction' - opaque, high-impact scoring systems - as a caution against ranking people with black-box models.

What you should get from this: Name risks O'Neil associates with harmful scoring systems (for example opacity, scale, and damage) without treating the talk as a complete technical definition.

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AI Expert note: 2017 TED talk; algorithmic-scoring examples (credit, hiring, teacher evaluation) remain relevant to AI ranking tools, though specific systems change.

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