OPINION Who am I to decide when algorithms should make important decisions? The people who bear the risks of algorithmic systems should get to determine whether — and how — they’re used.

Chicago police used predictive algorithms designed by an Illinois Institute of Technology engineer to create a 400-suspect “heat list” of “people in the city of Chicago supposedly most ...

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A UK controversy about school leavers’ marks shows algorithms can get things wrong. To ensure algorithms are as fair as possible, how they work and the trade-offs involved must be made clear.

Education systems across Europe struggled this year with how to determine students’ all-important final grades. But one system, the International Baccalaureate (“IB”) — a high school ...

Then each state would decide how to dole out the shots to local hospitals, nursing homes and clinics. But rather than streamline vaccine distribution, public health experts say, the algorithm has ...

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