Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has strongly defended an assessment tool for at-home funding support after ordering its urgent ...

If you are booked into jail in New Jersey, a judge will decide whether to hold you until trial or set you free. One factor the judge must weigh: the result from an algorithm called PSA that estimates ...

A new study that digs into when and how judges decide to use pretrial risk assessment algorithms found that many judges think these controversial tools are flawed but still useful. The tools, the ...

Justice systems around the world are using artificial intelligence (AI) to assess people with criminal convictions. These AI technologies rely on machine learning algorithms and their key purpose is ...

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...

Algorithms play a growing role in our lives, even as their flaws are becoming more apparent: A Michigan man wrongly accused of fraud had to file for bankruptcy; automated screening tools ...

The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has released new Recommended Practices for Algorithm Testing and Certification.

Each year roughly 7 million children are reported to child welfare authorities for possible abuse, but how do authorities determine if children like Gabriel Fernandez are in grave danger and in need ...