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 ...

J. Nathan Matias is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, and a 2022–23 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral ...

The growing and widespread use of algorithms to make health care decisions for patients could be adding to racial bias against minorities, a new study has found. Algorithms are the mathematical rules ...

For years, it was harder for Black patients to secure a coveted spot on the national kidney transplant waitlist because a clinical algorithm was making Black patients appear healthier than they were.