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An artificially intelligent first author presents many ethical questions—and could upend the publishing process.
Poor policy outcomes are not the responsibility of 'mutant maths', but of choices made by people in power.
In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.
More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.
The hunt is on for better ways to collect and search pandemic studies
Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful - but that's where the similarities end.
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region's system of mass surveillance.
An algorithm makes highly precise predictions about who will win the Nobel Prize but disagrees with the committee on the 2008 prize winner.
Complex algorithms will soon help clinicians make incredibly accurate determinations about our health from large amounts of information, premised on largely unexplainable correlations in that data.
