Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Wired magazine’s “spiritual advice columnist,” Meghan O’Ghieblyn, ...
A landmark Nature study of nearly 5,000 X users found that the platform's algorithmic feed measurably shifts political opinions rightward — and switching back to the chronological feed doesn't reverse ...
I've been working in data and artificial intelligence (AI) since it was just called statistics and applied math. But over the past decade, AI has approached a troubling inflection point. Notably, the ...
In many ways, artificial intelligence (AI) has brought a positive wave of innovation to society—from early detection of cancer to ensuring our packages arrive on time—but we aren’t always aware of ...
Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. Most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today. The rest will follow.
New research from Mozilla shows that user controls have little effect on which videos YouTube’s influential AI recommends. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm drives 70% of what people watch on the ...
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced legislation that would give people more control over the algorithms that shape their online experience. If passed ...