Algorithms Archives

Economics

The Future of Work: For Uber Drivers, Data Is the Boss

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.

Alex Rosenblat

Environment

When Big Data Becomes Bad Data

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

Lauren Kirchner

Education

The Tiger Mom Tax

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

Julia Angwin & Jeff Larson

Economics

The Future of Work: What If There Isn’t One?

Martin Ford

Economics

The Future of Work: Working for the Machine

Michael Bernstein

Environment

Algorithms Aren’t Killing Creative Culture

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.

Kyle Chayka