A study on offenders in Florida refutes the notion that computers are more objective than people One of my most treasured possessions is The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth, a computer ...

In 2016, researchers from Boston University and Microsoft were working on artificial intelligence algorithms when they discovered racist and sexist tendencies in the technology underlying some of the ...

One of the biggest barriers to using AI successfully is bias, which is one of the terms we defined last time, as follows: Bias, in a general context, refers to a predisposition or inclination towards ...

In recent years, employers have tried a variety of technological fixes to combat algorithm bias — the tendency of hiring and recruiting algorithms to screen out job applicants by race or gender. They ...

Despite companies’ constantly increasing reliance on data-churning tech, the way most algorithms work remains a mystery to many workers – which creates a power imbalance on the job. “I’m sorry, Dave.

Computer algorithms predict whether criminals will offend again more accurately than humans, according to a study that US researchers say has “far-reaching implications for criminal justice”.

MIT researchers believe they've figured out a way to keep facial recognition software from being biased. To do this, they developed an algorithm that knows to scan for faces, but also evaluates the ...