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Weapons of Math Destruction, Common Read 2022
This guide is intended to help faculty and students engage with the 2022 Common Read book, Weapons of Math Destruction.
Special thanks to Vicky Ludas Orlofsky and Courtney Walsh of Stevens Institute of Technology for the foundation for this guide.
AI in Insurance
AI in Insurance
“In the world of WMDs, privacy is increasingly a luxury that only the wealthy can afford.” (p. 170)
The Industry
- Insurance 2030--The impact of AI on the future of insuranceMcKinsey (financial services company blog)
March, 2021 - Algorithms, AI, and Insurance: Promise and PerilTriple-I Blog (Insurance Information Institute, industry blog)
December, 2019 - Algorithms and AI are Radically Changing Insurance. Regulators are Behind the CurveProMarket (business blog from the University of Chicago)
June, 2019
“Using AI to create new forms of coverage might destabilize the barriers between traditional lines of insurance and erode protections built in to form regulation aimed at making sure insurance policies are clear and contain minimum protections.”
AI in Action
“If companies set up free and voluntary wellness programs, few would have reason to object. (And workers who opt in to such programs do, in fact, register gains, though they might well have done so without them.) But tying a flawed statistic like BMI to compensation, and compelling workers to mold their bodies to the corporation’s ideal, infringes on freedom. It gives companies an excuse to punish people they don’t like to look at -- and to remove money from their pockets at the same time.” (p. 177)
- Lemonade Sorry for Claiming to Use Your Face to Detect FraudGizmodo (tech blog)
May, 2021 - Racial Bias Found in a Major Health Care Risk AlgorithmScientific American
October, 2019 - Insurers Want to Know How Many Steps You Took TodayNew York Times (opinion)
April, 2019 - Supposedly ‘Fair’ Algorithms Can Perpetuate DiscriminationWired
February, 2019
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