New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the same. Algorithms were supposed to make our lives ...

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 ...

Algorithms are a staple of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to wade through deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes, information, products, people and investments.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blindly eliminating biases from AI systems can have unintended consequences. Dimitri Otis/DigitalVision via Getty Images When I ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...

In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today. Reading time 6 minutes The author’s 1998 ...

Bias can create risks in AI systems used for cloud security. There are steps humans can take to mitigate this hidden threat, but first, it's helpful to understand what types of bias exist and where ...

Independent algorithmic auditing firm Parity AI has partnered with talent acquisition and management platform Beamery to conduct ongoing scrutiny of bias in its artificial intelligence (AI) hiring ...

Hoboken, N.J., June 17, 2025 – At the dawn of computing, women were the early adopters of computational technology, working with punch cards in what was then considered secretarial work. As computer ...

Algorithms were supposed to make our lives easier and fairer: help us find the best job applicants, help judges impartially assess the risks of bail and bond decisions, and ensure that health care is ...