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What happened to a Portland student sheds light on how a desire to thwart a shooting can have unintended consequences.
I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens. A forme...
We’ve conflated data with truth. And this has dangerous implications for our ability to understand, explain, and improve the things we care about.
When will we finally learn we cannot predict people’s character from their appearance?
In this WIRED Q&A, Invisible Women author Caroline Criado Perez explains how elements of the modern world were designed more for men than women.
Virtually everything we do these days is recorded digitally. Like this, share this, pay here — all these actions are stored as data, combined, analyzed and buil
BU Law Professor Khiara M. Bridges offers a new theory for the oversight and regulation of poor mothers in The Poverty of Privacy Rights.
Changing the name on a CV affects how physics and biology faculty members view theoretical applicants, according to a new study
Being able to accurately identify emotions in others is important for social interaction in general, but particularly so in interracial contexts, which are prone to misinterpretations and misunderstandings.
From exploding Ford Pintos to racist algorithms, all harmful technologies are a product of unethical design. Yet, like car companies in the ’70s, today’s tech companies would rather bla…
A received wisdom is that automated decision-making serves as an anti-bias intervention. The conceit is that removing humans from the decision-making process wi
Why data science is a profound threat for queer people
For example, jobs with taxi companies were overwhelmingly delivered to black users and secretarial ads to women, despite neutral targeting preferences.
The enormous financial success of online advertising platforms is partially due to the precise targeting features they offer. Although researchers and journalists have found many ways that...
As algorithms play a growing role in criminal justice, education and more, tech advisory boards and academic programs mirror real-world inequality
Simply holding meritocracy as a value seems to promote discriminatory behavior.
A new dissertation from University of Pretoria Information Technology master student John Leuner has revisited the thorny question of whether machine learning methods can effectively detect sexual orientation. AI-empowered “gaydar” systems are one of the more controversial applications of machine learning. Previous research from Stanford University (Wang and Kosinski, 2017) was criticized in the AIContinue Reading