Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect ...

How social media algorithms warp our perceptions A key question is what can be done to make algorithms foster accurate human social learning rather than exploit social learning biases.

Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms, that too many classrooms focus too much on ...

But firms can make algorithms trade in a way that obscures what they’re doing, explained Alejandro Lopez-Lira, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Florida’s Warrington ...

But Esthappan’s work, published in the journal Social Problems, found that judges aren’t wholesale adopting or rejecting the advice of these algorithms.Instead, they report using them ...

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict, and the spread of misinformation, my ...

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict and the spread of misinformation, ...

The TikTok algorithm ensures that the feed is varied and entertaining because it's very good at recognizing personal preferences. As a result, users stay on the platform for up to 1.5 hours a day.

What the kids I spoke to did not know is that these algorithms have been designed in a way that inevitably makes — and keeps — users unhappy.

Judges are using algorithms to justify doing what they already want. Algorithmic risk scores might be obscuring a broader issue with how the judicial system works.