Volumes: HELLO WORLD: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry

Thu Oct 18, 2018
6:30pm to 8:00pm ET
Age: 10 and up
Price: $10
Location:
National Museum of Mathematics
(212) 542-0566
11 East 26th Street, New York, NY, 10010
Invite a friend Website

MoMath favorite Hannah Fry has a new book! In HELLO WORLD, Hannah explores the role of algorithms in automating important decisions in crime, healthcare, relationships, and money.  Should we entrust ourselves to driverless cars? Are machines capable of producing great works of art? How do we balance the importance of making better medical diagnoses with the value of preserving privacy? 

Our increasing reliance on pre-defined, quantitative decision-making rules, some of which are invisible to us, raises some interesting questions.  If you enjoyed Hannah’s Math Encounters presentation in September and want the opportunity to delve more deeply into some of the issues she exposed, or if you just want to join a provocative discussion of an increasingly serious issues facing society today, you won’t want to miss this event.

** Activity dates/times are subject to change. Please click through to the activity website to verify.