Algorithms can have enormous consequences on people’s lives, yet a federal law prevents us from studying whether they may be biased, unfair or discriminatory.
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A European Union law will require human-understandable explanations for algorithms’ decisions. A team of researchers has found a way to provide that, even for complex calculations.
Data is becoming more and more important to the online advertising game. Soon, the ability to use data and algorithms will be a basic requirement in online advertising.
How do you know your search results or social media feeds aren’t being manipulated for political purposes? It’s not a crime to do so. But we believe it should be.
Artificial intelligence is surrounded by fear and mystery because very few understand its inner workings. But it’s actually rather intuitive and far simpler than it seems.
Despite its promises, people analytics has serious ethical implications and can adversely affect organisations and how people are treated at work.
When governments delay releasing information about disease outbreaks, algorithms come to the rescue.
Up to 50% of the people who take the efavirenz antiretroviral react particularly badly to it and need to change drug regimens.
The ethics and psychology of trust suggest ways we might learn to understand self-driving cars, but also show why doing so might be more challenging than we expect.
Politicians want to regulate the software that decides if we get a loan or a job, but existing laws can already protect us – if we know how to use them.
If the site is increasingly where people are getting their news, what could the company do without taking up the mantle of being a final arbiter of truth?
If people can be conned into jeopardizing our children’s lives, as they do when they opt out of immunizations, could they also be conned out of democracy?
Our brains may be slower at making decisions than computers, but there is a massive evolutionary benefit to this tardiness.
Think it’s a mere coincidence the first two letters of “algorithm” hint at Artificial Intelligence?
Some have suggested that deracialising the academy requires all researchers, teachers and students to link knowledge and identity. What might this mean for mathematics?
We need better surveillance systems to detect epidemics early. But while social media has been flagged as a potential solution, we’re not quite there yet.
Is the rise of big data and the use of algorithms by businesses to blame for modern society’s ills?
Changes in news media distribution and the impartiality of news sources provide good reason to be concerned. However, digital inequality is not the way to understand or measure it.
Algorithms that learn from large data sets can pick up inherent social biases. That could perpetuate the biases, or even worsen them.
Making decisions about what people do and don’t read is the traditional role of an editor, no matter what Facebook claims.
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