Researchers who dug through nearly 50,000 records discovered that the algorithm effectively low-balled the health needs of the hospital’s black patients. Using its output to help select patients ...

Another example of clustering algorithms in use is recommender systems, which group together users with similar viewing, browsing, or shopping patterns to recommend similar content.

Topline Amazon, the behemoth online retailer, used a secret algorithm called “Project Nessie” to determine how much to raise prices in a manner in which competitors would follow, according to ...

The algorithms learned to assign little significance to skills that were common across IT applicants, such as the ability to write various computer codes, the people said.

As governments around the world are turning to algorithms and AI to automate their systems, the Dutch scandal shows just how utterly devastating automated systems can be without the right safeguards.

Caption Example of an interval cancer retrospectively detected by the artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. A 41-year-old woman presented for a screening digital breast tomosynthesis examination ...

Last month, Twitter users uncovered a disturbing example of bias on the platform: An image-detection algorithm designed to optimize photo previews was cropping out Black faces in favor of white ...