One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer ...

The author of the new book ‘Attention and Alienation’ wonders if the online world can ever become a place where kindness and ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they ...

Online pricing algorithms can game the system and ultimately end up costing the consumer more. And the impact of these program can go beyond just a few extra dollars at checkout.

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict, and the spread of misinformation, my ...

Online algorithms are designed to make decisions sequentially, without complete knowledge of future inputs. In many real-world applications—from scheduling and resource allocation to network ...

Billionaire Mark Cuban warns of the influence of social media algorithms in the 2024 election, arguing they are the most influential positions in politics.

An algorithm may be accurate at detecting toxic speech overall, but it may not detect it equally well across all groups of people and all social contexts.

In an article published on June 21, Axios reporters Tal Axelrod and Erica Pandey examine the online algorithms that Trump's 2024 campaign and MAGA Republicans used to attract more Gen-Z voters.

The internet isn’t rotting your brain. Algorithm-driven doomscrolling is rotting your brain. To be online in 2025 is to be miserable. A lot of that is the current state of the world, to be fair ...