Simple algorithms have been used for computer-based decision making for decades. Today, algorithms help ease otherwise-complicated processes all the time, whether we know it or not.

The advancement of algorithms may result in the loss of human judgment, a new report says. ... There will be a loss in complex decision-making skills of the masses." ...

The government’s attempt to grade thousands of students by algorithm has been a disaster.Hundreds of student protesters, gathering outside the Department for Education, on August 16 made this ...

The algorithm is one of many making decisions about people’s lives in the United States and Europe. Local authorities use so-called predictive algorithms to set police patrols, prison sentences ...

There is a decision being made about you in this box. But you're not allowed to look inside — and even if you could, it wouldn't tell you much. There are countless black boxes, just like this ...

Algorithms and flowcharts are two tools a software developer uses when creating new programs. ... In this flowchart, there's a decision point represented by a diamond, ...

In 2018, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero program taught itself the games of chess, shogi, and Go using machine learning and a special algorithm to determine the best moves to win a game within a ...

But there’s another frontier of AI and algorithms that should worry us greatly: the use of these systems in medical care and treatment. The use of AI and algorithmic decision-making systems in ...

Judges also, however, were keenly aware of how a decision would reflect on them — and according to Esthappan, this was a huge factor in whether they trusted risk scores.