Algorithms

A recent vote over a proposed tool to predict the risk that a person would pose a threat to public safety in Pennsylvania stirred a debate over its unintended consequences.

• By Stephanie Wykstra

The criminal justice system has been using predictive algorithms for decades, but research shows even the best algorithms are no better than humans at predicting recidivism—and neither are very good.

• By Kate Wheeling

We can learn more about our own internal decision-making processes through the language of mathematical algorithms used by AI machines.

• By Daniel Bear

When big data uses bad data, discrimination can result.

• By Lauren Kirchner

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Alex Rosenblat

Corporations are increasingly relying on algorithms to make business decisions, and that raises new legal questions.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Asians are nearly twice as likely to get a higher price from the Princeton Review's SAT test prep services.

• By Julia Angwin & Jeff Larson

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Martin Ford

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Michael Bernstein

Algorithms are fundamentally uncreative. Every set of crunched numbers, every calculated outcome, needs an equal and perhaps opposite human component to bring it to life.

• By Kyle Chayka

From the NSA to OKCupid.

• By Kyle Chayka

Understand that human thinking is fuzzy around the edges, which is totally different from how computers compute.

• By Michael Todd

Can a simple Google Trends algorithm beat Wall Street?

• By Kevin Charles Fleming