A human's guide to machine intelligence: how algorithms are shaping our lives and what we can do to control them

A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives, and how we can shape the way they impact us
Through the technology embedded in almost every major tech platform and every web-enabled device, algorithms and the artificial intelligence that underlies them make a staggering number of everyday decisions for us, from what products we buy, to where we decide to eat, to how we consume our news, to whom we date, and how we find a job. We've even delegated life-and-death decisions to algorithms—decisions once made by doctors, pilots, and judges. In his new book, Kartik Hosanagar, who was recognized in 2011 by Poets & Quaints as one of the "Top 40 Business Professors Under 40," surveys the brave new world of algorithmic decision-making and reveals the potentially dangerous biases they can give rise to as they increasingly run our lives. He makes the compelling case that we need to...