29 June 2023
A New York City law is requiring companies to show that the AI-powered tools they use in hiring and promotion are not biased. Critics say it lets most employers off the hook
9 September 2021
China has drafted powerful new legislation that would control how businesses use data to target advertising, curate social media feeds and recommend content
5 February 2021
Some tangles that look like knots are actually “the unknot”, which can be untangled into a simple loop, and a new algorithm has sped up the process of finding them
16 December 2020
Recreating the delicious meals of my youth involves balancing the algorithms of online recipes against my recollection of watching my father cook, says Annalee Newitz
4 December 2020
Tapping on devices that is detected by voice assistants could potentially be used to deduce what a person is typing on their phone up to half a metre away
18 June 2020
The algorithms that ride-hailing companies such as Uber use to determine fare prices appear to set higher prices for non-white neighbourhoods
30 October 2019
Firms are racing to create a real-time database of every object on Earth larger than a car. It would help investors and conservationists, but could it be abused?
26 June 2019
Digital doctors are already in use, but there are big questions about how they work. Are we ready for the rise of AI healthcare?
29 May 2019
AI isn’t going to crush us underfoot, but it does harbour a threat that makes Terminator look innocent: entrenching human biases and turning them against us
13 March 2019
Driverless cars have a problem – rotations of an object fool the best image recognition AIs, which may mean confusing a tin for a truck on the road
