Democrats in Congress, wary of how unexpected biases in algorithms could lead to discrimination against people, want to give federal regulators oversight over their use by companies. The Algorithmic ...

"Algorithms are the new arbiters of human decision-making in almost any area we can imagine, from watching a movie (Affectiva emotion recognition) to buying a house (Zillow.com) to self-driving ...

The AI researcher Sandra Wachter is working to drag them into the light. The 32-year-old is a research fellow at both the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute in London.

We have progressively restricted our own decision-making capacity and allowed algorithms to take over. We have become artificial humans, or human artefacts, that are created, shaped and used by ...

Algorithms are embedded into our technological lives, helping accomplish a variety of tasks like making sure that email makes it to your aunt or that you're matched to someone on a dating website who ...

Public sector bodies must be more open about their use of algorithms in making decisions, ministers have been told. A government advisory body said greater transparency and accountability was ...

If you've ever been stuck in an endlessly time-wasting automated telephone tree ("Press One for…") you know the limits of pre-programmed decision-making systems. Somebody must have thought this ...

But there’s another frontier of AI and algorithms that should worry us greatly: the use of these systems in medical care and treatment. The use of AI and algorithmic decision-making systems in ...