Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An increasing number of health care decisions rely on information from algorithms. Tom Werner/Digital Vision via Getty Images ...

Bias in algorithms have always been a key issue in the growing field of artificial intelligence. For instance, researchers found in an experiment that flawed AI in robots has the tendency to make ...

Algorithms were supposed to remake the American justice system. Championed as dispassionate, computer-driven calculations about risk, crime, and recidivism, their deployment in everything from ...

According to a new report by the Human Rights Watch, an algorithmic welfare distribution system for Jordan, funded by the World Bank, unfairly and inaccurately quantifies poverty. An algorithm funded ...

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...