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 ...

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.

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 ...

To combat algorithmic bias in healthcare, including race and ethnicity is critical, a new study says. Algorithms are used to make healthcare decisions, and can often be more accurate than a clinical ...

Anthropic is releasing an open source method to evaluate the political "evenhandedness" of AI chatbots, the company said ...

Sky News conducted an investigation that showed Elon Musk's social media platform to be biased towards the right wing.

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 months, X has become a focus of political conversation in the UK, with social media experts and politicians saying ...

Despite some progress, gender discrimination in hiring remains a challenge. Women are judged more harshly than men, with a broad assumption of less competence. Only 15 percent of CEOs at Fortune 500 ...

New research by Questrom’s Carey Morewedge 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 ...