Ahmed’s Reviews > Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy > Status Update

'My point is that oceans of behavioral data, in coming years, will feed straight into artificial intelligence systems. And these will remain, to human eyes, black boxes. In the era of machine intelligence, most of the variables will remain a mystery.

If we don't wrest back a measure of control, the models will feel mysterious and powerful. They'll have their way with us, and we'll barely know it's happening.'