Part 2, Digital Inequality Series: Under what conditions can artificial intelligence benefit all of society vs. just a few people? Kalinda Ukanwa, a quantitative marketing scholar at the University of ...

A new algorithm aims to assess the likelihood of defendants being treated unfairly in court. The tool considers details that ought to be immaterial to the ruling — such as the judge’s and defendant’s ...

Algorithms are a staple of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to wade through deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes, information, products, people and investments.

Algorithms were supposed to make our lives easier and fairer: help us find the best job applicants, help judges impartially assess the risks of bail and bond decisions, and ensure that health care is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Facial recognition software misidentifies Black women more than other people. JLco - Ana Suanes/iStock via Getty Images In 1998, I ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...

Algorithmic bias is everywhere. Our work with dozens of organizations—healthcare providers, insurers, technology companies, and regulators—has taught us that biased algorithms are deployed throughout ...

PhD student and technologist Colin Madland recently called out the video-conferencing app, Zoom, on Twitter. Madland claimed Zoom has a “crappy face-detection algorithm” that “erases black faces” when ...

New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the same. Algorithms were supposed to make our lives ...