I first learned about AI and bias in 2016 from my then-Masters student Joy Buolamwini. She was constructing a digital “Aspire mirror” that would blend the image of her face with that of one of her ...

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

Algorithms are one of the four cornerstones of Computer Science. An algorithm is a plan, a set of step-by-step instructions to solve a problem. If you can tie shoelaces, make a cup of tea, get dressed ...

A new artificical intelligence system is able to create algorithms better and more powerful than humans have imagined, its creators say. DeepMind, the Google sister company that has brought a number ...

Lots of algorithms go bad unintentionally. Some of them, however, are made to be criminal. Algorithms are formal rules, usually written in computer code, that make predictions on future events based ...

On 4 August 2005, the police department of Memphis, Tennessee, made so many arrests over a three-hour period that it ran out of vehicles to transport the detainees to jail. Three days later, 1,200 ...