Cryptographic algorithms are what keep us safe online, protecting our privacy and securing the transfer of information. But many experts fear that quantum computers could one day break these ...

“Algorithms make it much easier not just for you to find the content that you’re interested in, but for the content to find you that the algorithm thinks you’re interested in,” Diakopoulos says. That ...

T he algorithms that underlie modern artificial-intelligence (AI) systems need lots of data on which to train. Much of that data comes from the open web which, unfortunately, makes the AI s ...

Algorithms have been used to generate art for decades, but a new era of AI art began in January 2021, when AI development company OpenAI announced DALL-E, a program that used recent improvements ...

For recommendation algorithms to examine these relationships, they need a lot of data. Therefore many providers, such as Netflix, Amazon and Spotify, ask users to rate content.

Additionally, algorithms can make flawed decisions when they don't account for novel situations outside their training data. This can also harm marginalized people, who are often underrepresented ...

Simple algorithms have been used for computer-based decision making for decades. Today, algorithms help ease otherwise-complicated processes all the time, whether we know it or not.

But algorithms have a huge impact on our tastes, buying habits, and decisions about our digital lives. Back in the 20th century–the primordial age of algorithms–life was simpler and harder at ...

How these algorithms change the way justice is administered is largely unknown. Journalists and academics have shown that risk-scoring algorithms can be unfair or racially biased.

Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful — but that’s where the similarities end. By Sendhil Mullainathan In one study published 15 years ago, two people applied for a job ...