The tyranny of algorithms is part of our lives
Credit scores already control our finances. With personal data being increasingly trawled, our politics and our friendships will be next. […]
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Fairness and Accountability Design Needs for Algorithmic Support in High-Stakes Public Sector Decision-Making
Calls for heightened consideration of fairness and accountability in algorithmically-informed public decisions—like taxation, justice, and child protection—are now commonplace. How […]
Unfairness By Algorithm: Distilling the Harms of Automated Decision-Making
Analysis of personal data can be used to improve services, advance research, and combat discrimination. However, such analysis can also […]
In the United States, computers help decide who goes to jail
Every day, judges across the United States face harrowing decisions: How many years should they give the bipolar woman convicted […]
Privacy in 2018: Expect the unexpected
Making predictions for the year ahead is possibly as desirable as unreliable. In a world of unlimited data and advanced […]
Report on the ethical matters raised by algorithms and artificial intelligence
Public awareness around the role of algorithms and artificial intelligence in our everyday lives has been rising subsequently in the […]
NYC May Be at the Vanguard of Algorithmic Accountability in 2018
Next year promises to be an important year for advancing conversations about accountability in artificial intelligence. While civil society has […]
In China, a Three-Digit Score Could Dictate Your Place in Society
China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what […]
How much …? The rise of dynamic and personalised pricing
Cheaper croissants in the morning is one thing; being charged according to your credit rating is another. As Black Friday […]
Congress Can Crack Down On Tech Companies, But It Can’t Do Much To Their Algorithms
Within an hour of the House Intelligence Committee’s Wednesday hearing with Facebook, Google, and Twitter, Rep. Adam Schiff, the committee’s […]
New York City Takes on Algorithmic Discrimination
Invisible algorithms increasingly shape the world we live in, and not always for the better. Unfortunately, few mechanisms are in […]
Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself?
As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field’s researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know […]