People are less morally outraged when gender discrimination occurs because of an algorithm rather than direct human involvement, according to new research. People are less morally outraged when gender ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Sen. Edward Markey and Rep. Doris Matsui reintroduce their bill to block discriminatory algorithms. Sen. Edward ...

Algorithms are everywhere. You rely on them every day to make countless important decisions. You hit the search button in Google, and the search engine filters through millions of webpages to find ...

In June 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) went into effect. The federal law requires employers to give pregnant employees reasonable accommodations, such as getting appropriately sized ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to add language to a federal rule to make it clear that physicians could be held accountable for decisions made while relying on clinical ...

From recruiting software that favours men to facial recognition systems that struggle to identify Black faces, artificial intelligence (AI) technology often reflects entrenched bias, campaigners say ...

Are algorithms a threat to justice? Will they increase discrimination on the basis of race and sex? Many people think so. According to a recent survey, nearly three in five Americans believe ...

Preventing discrimination requires that we have means of detecting it, and this can be enormously difficult when human beings are making the underlying decisions. As applied today, algorithms can ...