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
10 May 2023
Artificial intelligence systems will do what you ask but not necessarily what you meant. The challenge is to make sure they act in line with human’s complex, nuanced values
1 December 2021
Originally a way of solving complicated equations with moving variables, the modern definition of an algorithm is morphing
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?
3 July 2019
Sight Machine, an AI project at the Barbican, shows how the algorithms used in techniques like facial detection capture the performance of a string quartet
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?
5 June 2019
Yoshua Bengio is one of the pioneering developers of artificial intelligence and winner of computing’s "Nobel prize". His optimism about machines doesn’t extend to humanity
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
