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 ...

A new study has revealed that people who smell like them may be more likely to become friends. The study was led by Inbal Ravreby at the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), in the city of Rehovot, ...

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.

People don’t like algorithms making moral decisions, U of C study finds As algorithms make more choices in our daily lives, from the advertisements we see to the shows we watch to whom we date, people ...

In what may put some of us to shame, apes instantly recognize family and friends that they haven’t seen in more than two decades, which is the longest ‘social memory’ in a non-human animal ever ...

Algorithms that incorporate race as a modifying factor to guide clinical decision-making have recently been criticized for propagating racial bias in medicine. The calculation of lung or kidney ...

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 ...