I spend all day making decisions, and they’re not always good ones. Could an algorithm do a better job of deciding what’s best for me?

A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist, had created a program called SciFiQ, and ...

What’s the Deal With Algorithms? Your 101 guide to the computer codes that are shaping the ways we live.

As software and algorithms become an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, there’s growing interest and concern on how they are affecting society, the economy, and politics. Yet, most social ...

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.

Here’s a simple example of the way algorithms can result in a biased outcome based on what it learns from the people who use it.

An artificial intelligence (AI) program designed to prevent suicide among U.S. military veterans prioritizes white men and ignores survivors of sexual violence, which affects a far greater ...

My favorite example of how informationally toxic YouTube's algorithm is this: Imagine you're high school freshman and got a school assignment about the Federal Reserve. — Chris Hayes ...