In 2013, a man named Eric L. Loomis was sentenced for eluding police and driving a car without the owner’s consent. When the judge weighed Loomis’ sentence, he considered an array of evidence ...

Ideally, predictive algorithms are stone-cold, rational, big data-crunching tools that can assist humans in their flawed decision-making process, but the caveat is that they can often reflect the ...

In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...