In 2008, Tammy Dobbs, a woman with cerebral palsy, moved to Arkansas. She applied to the state to receive help from a caretaker, and after an assessment, Dobbs was allotted the maximum 56 hours of ...

In today’s tech news, a new bipartisan Senate bill aims to make it easier to sue social media companies over their algorithms. The Algorithm Accountability Act would hold platforms responsible for ...

Broker-dealers who are sponsoring their customers' direct access to securities markets need to face a "higher level of accountability with respect to the algorithms they use,'' according to their ...

The black box of algorithms in public and private life can be impenetrable for journalists, constrained by trade secret exemptions and situational awareness — despite the fact that they can have a ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and ...

When the maritime trade union Nautilus International asked memberswhat they thought of AI at a forum in January, there was some positive sentiment: “We shouldn’t automatically assume there will be ...

Algorithmic accountability policies should prioritise meaningful public participation as a core policy goal, so that any deployment actually meets the needs of affected people and communities, ...

Artificial intelligence is emerging as a powerful tool against fossil fuel disinformation, exposing methane leaks, ...

Machine learning algorithms serve us the news we read, the ads we see, and in some cases even drive our cars. But there’s an insidious layer to these algorithms: They rely on data collected by and ...