That’s why there is serious work underway to design new types of algorithms that are resistant to even the most powerful quantum computer we can imagine. What do these algorithms even do?

As users of algorithms rather than programmers or architects of our own decisions, our own intelligence become artificial. It’s “program or be programmed” as Douglas Rushkoff would say.

ALGORITHMS are everywhere. They play the stockmarket, decide whether you can have a mortgage and may one day drive your car for you. They search the internet when commanded, stick carefully chosen ...

Most of us succumb to the simplicity of algorithmic manipulation, volunteering our minds to potent social experimentation.

A 2019 study found that an algorithm widely used in the U.S. for making decisions about enrollment in health care programs assigned white patients higher scores than Black patients with the same ...

Every minute, machines are shaping somebody’s future, as software decides which hospital patients should get extra monitoring or which credit card applicants get a thumbs-down. The hope was that ...

How algorithms reproduce social and racial inequality Dr. Safiya Noble explains how human bias creeps into the computer programs that govern and manage our lives ...

Social media has birthed an entire lexicon replicated by millions online — even if these words don’t actually mean skibidi. On today’s show, we talk to author Adam Aleksic about how TikTok and ...