Matt J. Kusner is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at University College London, and a fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. Joshua R. Loftus is an assistant ...

As organizations increasingly replace human decision-making with algorithms, they may assume these computer programs lack our biases. But algorithms still reflect the real world, which means they can ...

When OpenAI released its huge natural-language algorithm GPT-3 last summer, jaws dropped. Coders and developers with special access to an early API rapidly discovered new (and unexpected) things GPT-3 ...

Example of an interval cancer retrospectively detected by the artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. A 48-year-old woman presented for a screening digital breast tomosynthesis examination; its ...

Stanford found itself in hot water last week after deploying a faulty Covid-19 vaccine distribution algorithm. But the fiasco offers a cautionary tale that extends far beyond Stanford’s own doors — ...