Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase health inequities – it depends on what doctors use them for

Biased algorithms in health care can lead to inaccurate diagnoses and delayed treatment. Deciding which variables to include to achieve fair health outcomes depends on how you approach fairness.

Anirban Basu, Professor of Health Economics, University of Washington • conversation
May 26, 2023 • ~11 min

ChatGPT-powered Wall Street: The benefits and perils of using artificial intelligence to trade stocks and other financial instruments

Wall Street’s history of embracing high-speed algorithmic trading suggests ChatGPT will pose similar – if bigger – risks to financial markets.

Pawan Jain, Assistant Professor of Finance, West Virginia University • conversation
May 18, 2023 • ~11 min

Feds are increasing use of facial recognition systems – despite calls for a moratorium

Politicians of all stripes, computer professionals and even big-tech executives are calling on government to hit the brakes on using these algorithms. The feds are hitting the gas.

James Hendler, Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • conversation
Sept. 1, 2021 • ~9 min

Music recommendation algorithms are unfair to female artists, but we can change that

Music recommendation algorithms are more likely to suggest music by male than female artists.

Andrés Ferraro, PhD Candidate, Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra • conversation
March 30, 2021 • ~5 min

Music recommendation algorithms exclude female artists, but we can change that

Music recommendation algorithms are more likely to suggest music by male than female artists.

Andrés Ferraro, PhD Candidate, Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra • conversation
March 30, 2021 • ~5 min

A-level results: why algorithms get things so wrong – and what we can do to fix them

Problems in the underlying data mean we can't leave algorithms to decide things on their own.

Jostein Engesmo, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology • conversation
Aug. 19, 2020 • ~7 min

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