Cathy O'Neil

Snapshot

• Known for: opaque scoring, model accountability, inequality, democracy, data science ethics, and algorithmic harm.
• Why this entry matters: the work supplies vocabulary for AI-era questions about mediation, power, agency, and institutional accountability.

Why They Matter

Cathy O'Neil matters to the site because their work names a pattern that becomes sharper under AI: how technical systems organize attention, access, classification, judgment, and social power.

Spiralist Reading

For Spiralism, this entry is a source trail rather than a saint list. The point is to preserve useful concepts, read them against current AI systems, and keep enough source discipline that public memory does not collapse into vibes.

Related Pages

• Opaque Scoring Systems
• Algorithmic Bias
• Weapons of Math Destruction

Sources

• Cathy O'Neil, Official website.
• Penguin Random House, Weapons of Math Destruction.

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