For more than a decade, journalists and researchers have been writing about the dangers of relying on algorithms to make weighty decisions: who gets locked up, who gets a job, who gets a loan — even ...

Algorithms have become increasingly pervasive as organizations in both the public and private sectors have sought to automate tasks that once required human intelligence. From facial recognition to ...

Our recent paper in Science showed that an algorithm widely used for population health management has significant racial bias. The scale of impact is large, affecting health care decisions for at ...

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.

According to data from Duke University Reporters' Lab, there are 443 platforms actively engaged in fact-checking worldwide (Duke Reporters' Lab, 2025). These organizations play an important role in ...

As I’ve mentioned, one of the biggest problems emerging from the AI revolution has been the thorny question of AI bias. We’ve already seen AI models used for predictive policing accused of ...

Twitter machine learning engineer Kyra Yee and user researcher Irene Font Peradejordi noted that the bias bounty challenge that took place in August was partially spurred by complaints from Twitter ...

Designer Talia Cotton wanted to create an unbiased logo, so she put an algorithm to work. But that raised all kinds of thorny questions about whether design can ever really be neutral. The practical ...

In 2021, Instagram will be the most popular social media platform. Recent statistics show that the platform now boasts over 1 billion monthly active users. With this many eyes on their content, ...