Lealholm is a postcard village – the kind of thousand-year-old settlement with just a tea room, pub, provincial train station and a solitary Post Office to distinguish it from the rolling wilderness ...

Governments are increasingly turning to automated systems to make decisions for criminal sentencing, medicare eligibility, and school placement. Public officials and companies tout gains in speed and ...

The Situation: There have been numerous reports that computer algorithms used in artificial intelligence ("AI") systems have created or contributed to biased and discriminatory outcomes. To reduce ...

When Ron Wyden, Cory Booker, and Yvette Clarke introduced their Algorithmic Accountability Act in 2019, which would have required tech companies to conduct bias audits on their AI, the three sponsors ...

Key point: California’s expansion of its antitrust law — targeting algorithmic pricing and lowering the bar for litigation — signals a major shift in how companies must approach algorithmic pricing ...

Democratic lawmakers have proposed a bill to address the algorithmic biases lurking under the surface of tech’s biggest platforms. The bill, known as the Algorithmic Accountability Act, was introduced ...

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, ...

Most Americans believe in equal opportunity for everyone. But equal opportunity is being undermined as corporations increasingly delegate life-changing decisions to algorithms that reinforce the ...

Companies that create algorithms that implement public policy should not expect blanket protection from freedom of information review simply because of underlying intellectual property rights. What ...

We’ve become suspicious of tech. Once obscure issues like the design of news recommendation systems and the evaluation of criminal justice risk scoring methods have become major public conversations.

The disproportionate burden of COVID-19 among communities of color and a necessary renewed attention to racial inequalities have lent new urgency to concerns that algorithmic decision-making can lead ...