204: Como a Thoughtworks olha para agentes, com Alexey Villas Bôas (CTO LatAm)

This book explores the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence on economics, focusing on AI's role in enhancing predictions and decision-making. The authors explain how AI is shifting traditional power dynamics, creating new opportunities and challenges for businesses and societies. They emphasize the importance of system-level innovations over point solutions and discuss the economic implications, including value creation, cost savings, and potential disruptions. The book is praised for its accessible explanations, real-world examples, and thought-provoking ideas on AI's future role in business and society.

In this book, Cathy O'Neil explores the societal impact of big data algorithms, which she terms 'Weapons of Math Destruction' (WMDs). These algorithms are used in various fields such as insurance, advertising, education, and policing, and they often reinforce discrimination, amplify inequality, and harm the poor. O'Neil argues that these models are opaque, unregulated, and difficult to contest, leading to a 'toxic cocktail for democracy'. She calls for greater responsibility from modelers and policymakers to regulate these algorithms and for the public to become more aware of their impact. The book provides numerous examples of how these models can go wrong and emphasizes the need for ethical considerations in the use of big data models.