A consortium of journalists is revealing how the industry influences governments in Latin America and globally.
We asked experts to break down the top questions about how the transplant system works — and why equity matters.
Some teachers say that AI tools, particularly Google Lens, have made it impossible to enforce academic integrity in the classroom — with potentially harmful long-term effects on students’ learning.
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Ross here—I’m an Investigative Data Journalist at The Markup. We publish a lot of words telling you what AI can (and often shouldn’t) do, but how can public policy keep AI in check? To get more ...
State regulators and consumer advocacy groups have scrutinized Allstate Corporation’s use of big data and personalized pricing in the way it calculates how much the company charges its private auto ...
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For many people, an app malfunctioning is scarcely more than an annoyance. But for a Honduran immigrant living in Pennsylvania, a recent glitch elicited fears about the worst-case scenario: that it ...
During the second half of our junior year of high school, we were shocked to learn about an algorithm called the Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS) that our home state of Wisconsin had been using to ...
Five months after he was carjacked while driving for Uber, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage to his car, David Morrow finally received an offer of assistance from the company: $1,000, the ...
A satellite image of Plainfield, New Jersey with the city boundaries outlined. In 2018, police in the city of Plainfield, N.J., started using software called PredPol to predict where crime would ...