Algorithms are a staple of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to wade through deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes, information, products, people and investments.

"If you randomly follow the algorithm, you probably would consume less radical content using YouTube as you typically do!" So says Manoel Ribeiro, co-author of a new paper on YouTube's recommendation ...

"The participants were asked whether they would rather leave decisions in this area to an algorithm or to a human. When told that the probability of success was higher if they chose the algorithm, ...

New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the same. Algorithms were supposed to make our lives ...

Everyone wants predictive algorithms to be accurate, but there are different ways to define accuracy. Is it better to have an algorithm that's rarely perfect, but also rarely off by a mile? Or to have ...

"When you have a question about the algorithm, I encourage you to replace the word 'algorithm' in your question with ...

Day after day, people are forging lucrative careers just by picking up a microphone and camera and calling it news. What can we do about it?

Many books on artificial intelligence (AI) illuminate the pathologies of AI. These pathologies are created by artificial intelligence or better as artificial “intelligment” since AI may not be that ...