Automated systems can help us decide what products to purchase, which mates are most suitable, and what the fastest route is from A to B. The algorithms behind these systems outperform human judgment ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...

Algorithms are designed to learn user preferences by observing user behaviour. This causes algorithms to fail to reflect user preferences when psychological biases affect user decision making. For ...

The growing prominence of health tech enlisting artificial intelligence has led to a lot of practical applications for automating a wide variety of administrative tasks, analyzing medical images for ...