This story was originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions. Which public school will your child attend? How severe a sentence will you receive in the criminal justice system? Will you earn ...

Algorithms are embedded into our technological lives, helping accomplish a variety of tasks like making sure that email makes it to your aunt or that you're matched to someone on a dating website who ...

Algorithms are everywhere. They rule our lives. They decide what we see on social media, which ads get targeted to us, which route we should take to get places. If it used to be The Man keeping us ...

If you've ever been stuck in an endlessly time-wasting automated telephone tree ("Press One for…") you know the limits of pre-programmed decision-making systems. Somebody must have thought this was a ...

We live in a data-centric world, with artificial intelligence (AI) as the engine that increasingly drives decision-making. Companies and government agencies all seek to make smarter decisions, often ...

A panel including legal and artificial intelligence (AI) experts made the case today that algorithms used as evidence in court decisions and to influence other criminal justice decisions should be ...

Deciding what to do in situations when there is no right answer is an unenviable challenge for any leader. Doing it in a matter of seconds under the pressure of a rapidly changing scenario — like a ...

Regulatory bodies around the world increasingly recognize that they need to regulate how governments use machine learning algorithms when making high-stakes decisions. This is a welcome development, ...

Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study shows how ...

Uri Gal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Researchers uncover a single rule for how animals make spatial decisions while on the move. An international team led by researchers from the University of Konstanz and Max Planck Institute of Animal ...

Disproven conceptions of race may affect clinical decision-making and treatment in several ways and have implications on patient safety and outcomes, according to a Dec. 9 Kaiser Family Foundation ...