O'Neil 1
O'Neil quit this Wall Street financial firm after she felt the 2008 recession was in large part fueled by 'math'.
What is D.E. Shaw?
In 2014, this tech company CEO delivered a speech in which he called AI humanity's "biggest existential threat".
Who is Elon Musk?
In May 2017, this massive ransomware attack hit organizations in more than 100 counties through a security flaw in the MS Windows system.
What is Wannacry?
The U.S. News College Ranking Report was first published in this year.
What is 1998?
In 1989, George Cybenko from University of Illinois-Urbana proved that given enough data and this specific framework, could approximate any continuous mathematical function.
What is a neural network?
The practice of placing ads for services in search and social media platforms, based on a user's vulnerability characteristics and profile.
What is predatory advertising?
Gartner Research forecasts that this large number of objects/things will be connected through embedded sensors and networks by the year 2020.
What is 20.4 billion things?
In 2014, Google acquired this company for $3.2 billion to increase its ubiquitous sensing capacity in private spaces.
What is Nest?
One of two popular companies who sell police departments with models of predictive policing.
What is PredPol or Comp Stat?
In 2015, this organization was founded by a set of large Silicon Valley companies to explore all of the potential issues, dangers, and ethical concerns related to the increased development of intelligent machinery.
What is the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence?
A popular recidivism prediction algorithm used to make judgments about a prisoner's risk of committing future crimes.
What is the LSI-R or Level of Service Inventory-Revised?
An advanced type of AI, this term refers to embedding strategies and decision-making processes of a domain expert or a data scientist.
What is Automated Model Building?
The practice of running a series of competing ads to see which ones bring in the greatest number of users that fit the target profile.
What is A/B testing?
in 2013, NYC mayor Bloomberg lost his fight to continue this policing method when the judge ruled it violated the Fourth Amendment and was biased against African-American and Latino men.
What is 'stop and frisk' policing?
The U.S. Navy uses this completely autonomous system where a computer, radar, and Gatling cannon to protect ships against cruise missiles and aerial attacks.
What is the Phalanx CIWS (Close-in weapon system)?
The first election year that Facebook started their 'experiment' with tracking and sharing voter behaviors through their 'voter megaphone'.
What is 2010?
Goldman Sachs estimated that currently more than 1 in 5 U.S. based investment companies were investigating or implementing using this investment "method".
What is using "quants" or AI algorithms to identify hidden patterns in markets?
The 3 metrics used to create a new college ranking system under the Obama administration.
What is affordability, diversity of student population, and post-graduation placement?
The amount that is required for high school students to attend the Top Tier Admission 'admissions boot camp'.
What is $16,000, plus room and board?
In 2013, Strategic Communication Laboratories GRoup (SCL Group) announced this new division that specialized in micro-targeting political campaigns.
What is Cambridge Analytica?
O'Neil suggests this solution to start to correct the harm that is done by current WMDs.
What is a federal regulatory system for WMDs?
This type of automated algorithm can help to patrol digital commons and scan for criminal or suspect activity.
What is a 'police bot'?
This company was founded in 2006 by the Sunshine Press organization as a not-for-profit media organization.
What is WikiLeaks?
These types of health programs which collect large individual data streams fail to lower avg. blood pressure, blood sugar, or keep weight lose steady but are successful in quitting smoking.
What are corporate wellness programs?
An Oxford University researcher estimated that this percentage of pro-Trump traffic was generated by bots.
What is approximately 33%?