The biggest opportunities don’t come from people searching for your name. They come when someone’s searching for a ...

Maybe you even take a selfie and put it on Instagram to strut your stuff. Sometimes it’s too complicated to spell out a decision-making process. A special category of algorithms, machine ...

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 ...

Issues like these provide plenty of reason not to put an algorithm in the driver’s seat. And, indeed, the tools aren’t intended to be making decisions, simply providing judges with more ...

Life-changing decisions are happening in the dark. Machine-learning algorithms now determine decisions from loan applications to cancer diagnoses. In France, they place children in schools.

FOIAing source code, if it was put together by a government contractor ... that we closely follow the workshops on data brokering and algorithm decision making that the FTC is putting on,” he said. If ...

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 ...

If a day of being alive is also a series of decisions, could an algorithm successfully optimize my life, too? The question sounded simple, but I couldn’t stop wondering about it. Finally ...