The InfoQ Podcast: Cathy O'Neil on Pernicious Machine Learning Algorithms and How to Audit Them

O'Neil is the author of the blog mathbabe.org. She was the former Director of the Lede Program in Data Practices at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Tow Center and was employed as Data Science Consultant at Johnson Research Labs. O'Neil earned a mathematics Ph.D. from Harvard University. Topics discussed include her book "Weapons of Math Destruction," predictive policing models, the teacher value added model, approaches to auditing algorithms and whether government regulation of the field is needed. You can keep up-to-date with the podcasts via our RSS feed, and they are available via SoundCloud and iTunes.