Algorithms were supposed to remake the American justice system. Championed as dispassionate, computer-driven calculations about risk, crime, and recidivism, their deployment in everything from ...

MUSC Children's Health hematologists/oncologists Dr. Michelle Hudspeth (left) and Dr. Shayla Bergmann (right) conducted a study of a new algorithm to standardize the ...

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...

Bias in algorithms have always been a key issue in the growing field of artificial intelligence. For instance, researchers found in an experiment that flawed AI in robots has the tendency to make ...

According to a new report by the Human Rights Watch, an algorithmic welfare distribution system for Jordan, funded by the World Bank, unfairly and inaccurately quantifies poverty. An algorithm funded ...