In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today. The systems often fail on women of color ...

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 ...

Google, Amazon, schools, the government and many places across the world use some form of artificial intelligence (AI). While the algorithms and data science behind AI become more ubiquitous in ...

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 ...

In recent years, employers have tried a variety of technological fixes to combat algorithm bias — the tendency of hiring and recruiting algorithms to screen out job applicants by race or gender. They ...

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.

93% of businesses in a 2022 PWC survey had started their journey into AI and were somewhere between testing and widespread adoption, the other 7% were considering it; everyone is in. Try to find the ...

According to a recent study, artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of accurately identifying a person's race from radiographic scans, a feat that human experts are unable to replicate. As reported ...

Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for job recruiters, in part because programmers can code applicant-screening algorithms to avoid any explicit discrimination in their decision-making ...

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 ...