When algorithms go haywire (and they do) we often don't know what caused the problem, or even that the problem exists.

Demographic bias gaps are closing in face recognition, but how training images are sourced is becoming the field’s biggest privacy fight.

One notable example is the $34 million secured by British quantum algorithms specialist Phasecraft from a group of investors, ...

Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) describes a veritable freakshow of commercial algorithms whose insidious pathologies play out collectively to ruin peoples’ lives.

The Federal Trade Commission is considering whether to write sweeping new regulations that could restrict how businesses collect and use consumer data, hinting at a possible crackdown on ...

It is the latest unintended but inevitable consequence of the application of commercial algorithms — designed to reinforce consumer preferences for marketing purposes — to political speech.

The letters sent to UnitedHealth, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana and Aetna flagged a study that found racial bias in a widely used algorithm for assessing healthcare needs.

TUCSON, Ariz. , Jan. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Commercial real estate technology firm f9Analytics releases breakthrough algorithm for leasing, a first-of-its kind algorithm made free to the public via ...

Why is the rent so high? The secret is in the sauce. The software uses an algorithm, with inputs from a variety of market-specific data sets, to price apartment rents in order to remove the guesswork ...