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 Facebook shapes our access to information, Twitter dictates public opinion and Tinder influences our dating decisions, the algorithms we've developed to help us navigate choice are now actively ...

Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study ...

Even as powerful as today's algorithms are, we're further from autonomous general intelligence than you'd imagine.

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 ...

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 ...

Retailers are turning to what's called "algorithmic commerce," which tracks your searches and preferences and uses them to recommend items for you.

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 ...