A study published Thursday in Science has found that a health care risk-prediction algorithm, a major example of tools used on more than 200 million people in the U.S., demonstrated racial bias ...

The first case might occur, for example, if a deep-learning algorithm is fed more photos of light-skinned faces than dark-skinned faces. The resulting face recognition system would inevitably be ...

On May 19-20, Harvard Business School will host the Methodology, Organization, and Management (MOM): Technological Adoption and Human-Algorithm Interaction workshop.. The two-day workshop will bring ...

The scientists described these suggestions as originating from a “diagnostic assistance system based on an artificial-intelligence (AI) algorithm,” they explained in an e-mail.

An algorithm widely used in US hospitals to allocate health care to patients has been systematically discriminating against black people, a sweeping analysis has found.