Think of your local coffee shop: Every morning, the same baristas greet you; they know your order without you having to say it; they know your name, and you know theirs. In a small setting, this kind ...

Calls to put brakes on the use of artificial intelligence and in some cases to ban the technology altogether are getting louder. Now the UN's human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has joined her voice ...

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

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 ...

"Policymakers around the world are increasingly considering how to prevent government uses of algorithms from producing injustices. One mechanism that has become a centerpiece of global efforts to ...

Imagine that a ride-sharing driver receives a request for a pickup, and it’s up to the driver to accept or decline. The ride-sharing company’s algorithm has determined that this is a good ...

Every advisor today is inundated with headlines telling them that artificial intelligence is about to change everything. (And by headlines, I mean the slightly panicked conversations you hear at every ...

Increasingly – and often by stealth as they work inside your innocent-looking search engine – algorithms have entered not just our computers and working lives. They also govern more and more ...