It’s tempting to assume that artificial intelligence and machine learning can ensure HR’s decisions in key areas such as recruitment and performance management are completely unbiased. But there are ...

Public sector bodies must be more open about their use of algorithms in making decisions, ministers have been told. A government advisory body said greater transparency and accountability was needed ...

In a further sign of pharma embracing digital technologies, Roche has launched a library of medical algorithms designed to make clinical decision-making faster and more tailored to patients. The ...

The duel is age-old: on one side, cold, methodical and exhaustive ‘calculation’; on the other, the decision-maker’s dazzling intuition, that often indefinable ‘flair’. Since the advent of Big Data ...

In the face of overwhelming public pressure and looming legal action, the government last week scrapped its algorithm for calculating A-level grades. This resolved pressing concerns about the ...

Faster decision-making is helpful, but in acute care medicine, safer decisions must remain our primary focus​.

Public sector bodies must be more open about their use of algorithms in making decisions, ministers have been told. A government advisory body said greater transparency and accountability was needed ...