© 2018 Meredith Broussard
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Some material in this volume is adapted from essays published in The Atlantic: “Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing” (July 2014) and “The Secret Lives of Hackathon Junkies” (July 2015). Portions of “This Car Won’t Drive Itself” originally appeared in The Pennsylvania Gazette.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Broussard, Meredith, author.
Title: Artificial unintelligence : how computers misunderstand the world /
Meredith Broussard.
Description: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017041363 | ISBN 9780262038003 (hardcover : alk. paper)
eISBN 9780262346726
Subjects: LCSH: Electronic data processing--Social aspects. | Computer
programs--Correctness. | Errors.
Classification: LCC QA76.9.C66 B787 2018 | DDC 303.48/34--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017041363
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