Book Club: Artificial Unintelligence by Meredith Broussard

Meeting agenda: (1) Update Exercise (2) Book Club

UPDATE EXERCISE Begin with sharing your usual check-in sheet (what is the best, worst thing professionally, personally last month, next month) (8 bullet points)

BOOK CLUB Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard

Making a case against technochauvinism—the belief that technology is always the solution—Broussard argues that it's just not true that social problems would inevitably retreat before a digitally enabled Utopia. To prove her point, she undertakes a series of adventures in computer programming. She goes for an alarming ride in a driverless car, concluding “the cyborg future is not coming any time soon”; uses artificial intelligence to investigate why students can't pass standardized tests; deploys machine learning to predict which passengers survived the Titanic disaster; and attempts to repair the U.S. campaign finance system by building AI software.

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