Online pricing algorithms can game the system and ultimately end up costing the consumer more. And the impact of these program can go beyond just a few extra dollars at checkout.

The people at DeepMind took the same approach as they had with chess and Go: They turned code optimization into a game.The AlphaDev system developed x86 assembly algorithms that treated the ...

Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability for human decisions. For many, the term implies a set of rules based objectively on empirical ...

Insurers argue that patients can always pay for any treatment themselves, so they’re not really being denied care. But this argument ignores reality. These decisions have serious health consequences, ...

TNP: What kind of training workloads will be best suited to quantum systems (we’ll discuss annealing vs. gate model in a moment)? Sundararaghavan: Early machine learning algorithms on quantum ...

Risk-assessment algorithms like PSA have spread across the US as part of efforts to scrap or minimize use of cash bail to decide who gets to go home while awaiting a court date.

A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw affects millions of patients, and was ...