New work led by several universities, including Johns Hopkins, shows that neural networks built from biased Internet data teach robots to enact toxic stereotypes

Researchers found the platform’s algorithms promoted roles to certain users; company pledges to continue work in removing bias from recommendations

Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email—even when they have done nothing wrong.

Company pays $3,500 to Bogdan Kulynych who demonstrated flaw in image cropping software

Software developers and city governments are rethinking how and when to use algorithms that promise to curb crime

Hackers are pioneering new ways of tricking facial-recognition systems, from cutting the eyes out of photos to making a portrait ‘nod’ with artificial intelligence

U.S. lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of President Donald Trump who ransacked their workplace and forced them to evacuate this month.

A group of quantum computing experts are raising ethical concerns about the technology’s potential to accelerate human DNA manipulation.