Algorithms were supposed to remake the American justice system. Championed as dispassionate, computer-driven calculations about risk, crime, and recidivism, their deployment in everything from ...

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...

Cropped shot of a doctor using a digital tablet in a hospital Biased algorithms in health care can lead to inaccurate diagnoses. Clinicians should decide which variables to include to achieve fair ...

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...

Many physicians are now using algorithms that consider a patient's sex, like heart disease risk assessment tools, to help with clinical decision-making. Reliance on these algorithms may result in men ...