The journey toward responsible AI is an operational necessity for ensuring equitable public services. As we saw in Detroit and Austin, ignoring governance doesn't speed up innovation—it leads to ...

Algorithmic accountability policies should prioritise meaningful public participation as a core policy goal, so that any deployment actually meets the needs of affected people and communities, ...

Who gets the job interview. Who receives public benefits. Who is flagged as high risk. Increasingly, these outcomes are shaped not by human deliberation but by algorithmic systems embedded deep within ...

Governments are increasingly turning to automated systems to make decisions for criminal sentencing, medicare eligibility, and school placement. Public officials and companies tout gains in speed and ...

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Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and ...

Democratic lawmakers have proposed a bill to address the algorithmic biases lurking under the surface of tech’s biggest platforms. The bill, known as the Algorithmic Accountability Act, was introduced ...

A recent study published in Nature uncovers how X's algorithm, which determines post order in user feeds, shifts political opinions towards conservatism. Conducted by Bocconi University's Germain ...

“Currently, there are few consumer or civil rights protections that limit the types of data used to build data profiles or that require the auditing of algorithmic decision-making, even though ...

The accuracy and robustness of computational models is only one side of the equation. The field of algorithmic fairness and accountability investigates the decision-making capabilities of data-driven ...