Human bias, when shaped by values and informed by experience, can be a form of wisdom that protects us from making poor ...

Algorithms are a staple of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to wade through deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes, information, products, people and investments.

New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the same. Algorithms were supposed to make our lives ...

In August 2022 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking prohibiting covered entities, which include health care providers and health plans, from ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating hospitals' software algorithms to help identify potential racial biases in the systems. Listen to Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Rob Lott ...

Bias in algorithms and unscrupulous tax preparers are among the drivers of bias in the IRS’s auditing Black taxpayers at higher rates than non-Black ones, an IRS researcher said as he provided ...

Physicians are in short supply. They are costly. Is the APP the answer to the CMO's workforce and budget challenges? ... In a social media landscape shaped by hashtags, algorithms, and viral posts, ...

The most popular data are vital signs, which include such things as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and so forth. Often these data are fed into the EHR ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...