Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...
Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...
Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore? By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Sigrid Jin was waiting to ...
The late political scientist James C. Scott endorsed what he called “anarchist calisthenics”—the regular practice of small acts of lawbreaking and disobedience. Jaywalk at an empty intersection. Have ...
In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission, then led by Joe Biden appointee Lina Khan, along with 17 states, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. The case, finally scheduled to go to trial next year, ...
Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...
How machine intelligence changes the rules of business by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani In 2019, just five years after the Ant Financial Services Group was launched, the number of consumers using ...
Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...