Artificial Intelligence Microsoft is creating an oracle for catching biased AI algorithms As more people use artificial intelligence, they will need tools that detect unfairness in the underlying algorithms. by Will Knight 2018-05-25T07:00:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery But DARPA’s technologists admit that it might be a losing battle. by Will Knight 2018-05-23T07:00:00-04:00
Tech Policy An ex-Google engineer is scraping YouTube to pop our filter bubbles He’s built a website that lets you see how often YouTube’s algorithm recommends videos, so you can find out where it wants to take you. by Rachel Metz 2018-04-12T13:38:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence Three problems with Facebook’s plan to kill hate speech using AI Mark Zuckerberg thinks AI will largely automate the process of censorship, but that assumes profound progress will be made. by Will Knight 2018-04-12T12:07:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence Machines are coming for your March Madness office pool Alphabet’s Kaggle will award $100K to the machine-learning algorithms that come closest to picking this year’s bracket. by Jackie Snow 2018-03-14T14:50:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence Bias already exists in search engine results, and it’s only going to get worse The way search engines work is far from unprejudiced, a new book argues. by Jackie Snow 2018-02-26T16:43:00-05:00
Artificial Intelligence “We’re in a diversity crisis”: cofounder of Black in AI on what’s poisoning algorithms in our lives Timnit Gebru looks around the AI world and sees almost no one who looks like her. That’s a problem for all of us. by Jackie Snow 2018-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms are making American inequality worse In a new book, political scientist Virginia Eubanks says using computers to decide who gets social services hurts the poor. by Jackie Snow 2018-01-26T16:13:00-05:00
Connectivity Our Best Stories of 2017 Our staff pick their favorites. by MIT Technology Review Editors 2017-12-29T00:00:00-05:00
Connectivity The Woman Engineering Uber’s Driverless Trucks Nancy Sun is trying to get driverless trucks on the road and convince truck drivers to trust Uber, too. by Rachel Metz 2017-12-06T16:24:00-05:00