Artificial intelligence has improved by leaps and bounds over the last few decades and has changed the way many people, ...

As artificial intelligence takes off, how do we efficiently integrate it into our lives and our work? Bridging the gap ...

But how do we know we can trust an algorithm’s decision? In June, nearly 100 drivers in the United States learnt the hard way that sometimes algorithms can get it very wrong. Google Maps got ...

Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study ...

Decision makers make consequential choices based on predictions of unknown outcomes. Judges, in particular, make decisions about whether to grant bail to defendants or how to sentence those convicted.

Algorithmic decision-making has enormous potential ... It would be ideal if the developers of social policy algorithms put these principles at the core of their work. But in the absence of ...

Google says there was “no algorithm involved” in its job-cut decisions. But former employees are not wrong to wonder, as a fleet of artificial intelligence tools become ingrained in office life.

When they put in Sarah’s details ... Like many other automated decision-making processes, the algorithm had major human design flaws. For one, the way it was implemented curtailed the agency ...