An algorithm used to inform healthcare decisions for millions of people shows significant racial bias in its predictions of the health risks of black patients.

Child welfare decisions should not be made by computer algorithms Illinois wisely stopped using algorithms in child welfare cases, but at least 26 states and Washington, D.C., have considered ...

Predicting who is going to win during each round of the AFL is tough, and even computer algorithms struggle to do better than the luckiest human.

Risk assessment algorithms are just as flawed as humans when it comes to deciding who walks free—and it's a growing problem.

Computer algorithms and artificial intelligence increasingly affect more and more of our lives, from the content we’re shown online, to the music we enjoy, to how our household appliances work ...

So, an algorithm is the process a computer uses to transform input data into output data. A simple concept, and yet every piece of technology that you touch involves many algorithms.