Despite companies’ constantly increasing reliance on data-churning tech, the way most algorithms work remains a mystery to many workers – which creates a power imbalance on the job. This article ...

Employers trusting in the impartiality of machines sounds like a good plan to eliminate bias, but data can be just as prejudiced as we are We would all like to fancy ourselves as eminently capable of ...

Governments around the world are beginning to introduce laws that govern the use of artificial intelligence algorithms in monitoring employees’ work. But while it’s easy to see AI as the enemy, it ...

Many students were unhappy with the results given to them by the algorithm The national statistics regulator is stepping in to review the algorithm used by Ofqual to decide A-level grades for students ...

Research carried out by Twitter has found the social media site amplifies content from right-leaning news outlets and parties more than those from the left. In a study examining political tweets from ...

TikTok's content recommendation system is under scrutiny again after its parent company, ByteDance, agreed to hand control of the app's US operations to a new joint venture including Oracle. The ...

Social media platforms use complex algorithms to decide what content appears on each user's feed. These systems are designed to filter massive amounts of posts and prioritize the ones most likely to ...

So much of our lives is lived online, and most of us are aware that what we do on social media is largely governed by unseen and unspecified rules. In recent years, particularly since 2016, when ...