Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Let’s take a look at a bit of a puzzling conundrum. It is said ...

Manish Raghavan is one of the leading researchers on the use of computational techniques in areas of social concern, including algorithmic fairness and behavioral economics. He’s been instrumental in ...

Strava, a San Francisco–based fitness website whose users upload data from their Fitbits and other devices to track their exercise routines and routes, didn’t set out to endanger U.S. military ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...

Drexel University professor and researcher Julia Stoyanovich, whose work focuses on ethical data management and analysis, is one of 14 experts tapped by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to join the ...

The government should force public sector bodies to be more transparent about their use of algorithms that make “life-affecting” decisions about individuals, says a review into algorithmic bias.

Across the country, felons awaiting sentencing or serving time in many of America’s prisons will see their futures determined, at least in part, by algorithms (which are step-by-step instructions for ...

In a new commentary published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, two researchers are questioning the ethics and transparency of Facebook's suicide prevention system. The algorithm reportedly ...