Government Technology

Justice-Focused Algorithms Need to Show Their Work, Experts Say

A panel including legal and artificial intelligence (AI) experts made the case today that algorithms used as evidence in court decisions and to influence other criminal justice decisions should be ...

We Need to Close the Gender Data Gap By Including Women in Our Algorithms

From cars that are 71% less safe for women than men (because they’ve been designed using a 50th-percentile male dummy), to ...
Scientific American

Medical Algorithms Need Better Regulation

Medical algorithms are used across the health-care spectrum to diagnose disease, offer prognoses, monitor patients’ health and assist with administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling. But the ...
STAT

This series, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting, highlights the dangers of AI use in medicine

Casey Ross and Bob Herman’s reporting exposes how UnitedHealth Group used an unregulated algorithm to override clinicians’ judgment and deny care to seriously ill older and disabled patients. The ...
Wired

Health Care Bias Is Dangerous. But So Are ‘Fairness’ Algorithms

SANDRA WACHTER is Professor of Technology and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute. BRENT MITTELSTADT is an Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute. CHRIS ...