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Human Rights Data Analysis Group Lead Statistician Kristian Lum speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7th, 2018, in San Francisco, California.

Social Justice

Justice by the Numbers: Meet the Statistician Trying to Fix Bias in Criminal Justice Algorithms

When the underlying data they rely on is incomplete—and it often is—the growing use of machine learning tools in America's criminal justice system can have devastating effects.

A desert smoke tree is illuminated by half-moon light in the Trilobite Wilderness region of Mojave Trails National Monument near Essex, California.

Environment

Could Machine Learning Be the Key to Better Plant Conservation?

A multi-institutional research team used the power of open-access databases to predict the conservation status of more than 150,000 plants.

Ixil indigenous women attend a hearing during the genocide trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt in Guatemala City on August 25th, 2015.

Social Justice

All the Dead We Cannot See

Patrick Ball has advised nine truth commissions, four U.N. missions, and dozens of advocacy groups in more than 30 countries. And his non-profit, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, "represents, without a doubt, the world's top people doing statistical work on human rights violations."

Economics

Using Data to Help Migrants Find Work

Research shows that machine learning can improve the way we place refugees in the United States.

Kevin Charles Fleming

News in Brief

Could Humanity Actually Create a Self-Aware Machine?

It sounds like the plot of science-fiction movie, but academics have long debated the possibility of conscious artificial intelligence.

News in Brief

How Artificial Intelligence Can Explain Unconscious Decision-Making

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

News in Brief

Art(ificial Mastery) of the Deal

Researchers at Facebook just showed the Turing Test isn't all it's cracked up to be.

News in Brief

Artificial Intelligence Takes a Trip on the London Underground

Researchers have devised a system that can learn sophisticated tasks, like figuring out where in the heck you…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

Artificial Intelligence Will Be as Biased and Prejudiced as Its Human Creators

The reason is simple: AI learns from us. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) The optimism…

Pacific Standard Staff