Predictive algorithms commonly used by colleges and universities to determine whether students will be successful may be racially biased against Black and Hispanic students, according to new research ...

Twitter Inc. announced today that it will study its machine learning algorithms in an effort to ascertain whether they cause unintentional harm. The company said that over the next few months as part ...

New research published Thursday attempts to shed light on these questions. Four peer-reviewed studies, appearing in the journals Science and Nature, are the first results of a long-awaited, repeatedly ...

Algorithms are just as biased as the people who make them. An investigation by ProPublica found that Northpointe, creators of an algorithm that attempts to predict an incarcerated person’s likelihood ...

Twitter announced a new plan to study the fairness of its algorithms. As part of the effort, which the company has dubbed the "Responsible Machine learning Initiative," data scientists and engineers ...