The stunt was a vending machine that appeared to offer variety but, like social media feeds, only dispensed unreal faces - ...

A mother shares how AI algorithms fed her friend's son suicide content, leading to his death, and warns of new AI dangers.

Recent studies show some systems recommend different treatments for identical patients based only on demographic labels, a ...

Algorithms are growing ever stronger. They measure and project mirrors of a pattern that once looked like someone adjacent to ...

Over the past few months, we’ve documented how the vast majority of AI’s applications today are based on the category of algorithms known as deep learning, and how deep-learning algorithms find ...

“Imagine a scenario in which self-driving cars fail to recognize people of color as people—and are thus more likely to hit them—because the computers were trained on data sets of photos in which such ...

For decades, businesses have operated online, generally assuming that there’s always a human on the other side of the screen.

Dating app Tinder relies on algorithms to decide which photos users see. Mike Blake/Reuters This piece isn’t about these issues, or about breaking down the complex nature of how algorithms work. To ...

Many companies are searching for tools to help them hire diverse, productive workforces. Even if diversity is not the main hiring goal, they may want to ensure they’re not overlooking talented ...

Streaming platforms promise to learn what viewers love and serve it back to them, but a growing body of peer-reviewed ...

As software and algorithms become an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, there’s growing interest and concern on how they are affecting society, the economy, and politics. Yet, most social ...

A quantum computer is a machine designed to use quantum mechanics to do things which cannot be done by any machine based only on the laws of classical physics. Eventual applications of quantum ...