A mother shares how AI algorithms fed her friend's son suicide content, leading to his death, and warns of new AI dangers.

Recent studies show some systems recommend different treatments for identical patients based only on demographic labels, a ...

AI-driven platforms pull informal labour into the global digital economy but push the risks and responsibilities back onto ...

Algorithms are growing ever stronger. They measure and project mirrors of a pattern that once looked like someone adjacent to ...

Many companies are searching for tools to help them hire diverse, productive workforces. Even if diversity is not the main hiring goal, they may want to ensure they’re not overlooking talented ...

Streaming platforms promise to learn what viewers love and serve it back to them, but a growing body of peer-reviewed ...

As software and algorithms become an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, there’s growing interest and concern on how they are affecting society, the economy, and politics. Yet, most social ...

Dating app Tinder relies on algorithms to decide which photos users see. Mike Blake/Reuters This piece isn’t about these issues, or about breaking down the complex nature of how algorithms work. To ...

“Imagine a scenario in which self-driving cars fail to recognize people of color as people—and are thus more likely to hit them—because the computers were trained on data sets of photos in which such ...

When quantum computers become powerful enough, they could theoretically crack the encryption algorithms that keep us safe. The race is on to find new ones. Tech Review Explains: Let our writers ...