This article is republished from The Markup. Read the original article, which was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined ...

“Predictive policing” has an enticing ring to it. The idea is that you feed a bunch of data into a mysterious algorithm, and poof, out comes intelligence about the future that tells police where the ...

Automation can be the key to unlocking efficiency—but what happens when the algorithms at the core of an automated process perpetuate racial and economic biases? A ...

This is Episode 12 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv. There’s a new kind of software that claims to help law ...

Alex Karp, CEO of the software company Palantir, said at the Financial Times Weekend Festival on Saturday that although he's opposed to Palantir building technology that predicts crimes based on past ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More This week in AI, a new Pew Center poll shed light on Americans’ views of ...

In an era marked by technological advancements, the thin line between ensuring public safety and invading individual privacy has become increasingly blurred. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ...

In an investigation from Gizmodo and The Markup, reporters found that software tended to disproportionately predict crimes in low-income communities and communities of color. Many law enforcement ...

The question of algorithms outpacing their utility and perpetuating structural violence is no longer a dystopian hypothetical, but rather a terrifying reality of contemporary society. The roots of ...

The EU is edging closer to a landmark ban on predictive policing and facial recognition. At a crunch vote today on the bloc’s flagship AI Act, two committees of MEPs overwhelmingly endorsed sweeping ...

A co-reported investigation with Gizmodo and The Markup into PredPol A co-reported investigation with Gizmodo and The Markup into PredPol PredPol’s algorithm is supposed to make predictions based on ...