For example, an algorithm called CB (color blind) imposes the restriction that any discriminating variables, such as race or gender, should not be used in predicting the outcomes.

A 2019 study found that an algorithm widely used in the U.S. for making decisions about enrollment in health care programs assigned white patients higher scores than Black patients with the same ...

For example, a cohort of less than 15 students that is excluded from being subjected to the algorithm is probably either a class in a private school or studying a less popular subject.

In 2018, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero program taught itself the games of chess, shogi, and Go using machine learning and a special algorithm to determine the best moves to win a game within a ...

Kleinberg, Ludwig, Mullainathan, and Sunstein acknowledge that there will be pushback: maintaining such large data sets for examination can be expensive, and companies will be reluctant to reveal ...

Adam Aleksic talks about his new book 'Algospeak,' which details how algorithms are changing our vocabulary; plus, we check in with Hennessy + Ingalls bookstore.

Take a recent example in New York City: The police department has begun using algorithms to help decide where to deploy officers across the city. In 2015, the New York Police Department performed ...

But there’s another frontier of AI and algorithms that should worry us greatly: the use of these systems in medical care and treatment. The use of AI and algorithmic decision-making systems in ...

The advancement of algorithms may result in the loss of human judgment, a new report says. Experts on the subject weigh the pros and cons of computer code that aims to make our lives easier.

1. The Wrong Data An algorithm can only make accurate predictions if you train it using the right type of data. For example, the characteristics that make a house valuable in San Francisco (good ...

Burstin: There are several examples of clinical algorithms that may have caused harm because they included race. The most well-known example is the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR ...