People are less morally outraged when gender discrimination occurs because of an algorithm rather than direct human involvement, according to new research. People are less morally outraged when gender ...

(CNN)Facebook-parent Meta is facing four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory, ...

A European human rights body has ruled that Meta, Facebook's parent company, engaged in gender discrimination on its job advertisements' algorithm. The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights found ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to add language to a federal rule to make it clear that physicians could be held accountable for decisions made while relying on clinical ...

The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services raised concerns that Facebook’s proprietary algorithms could perpetuate housing discrimination, despite the social media company’s recent ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Sen. Edward Markey and Rep. Doris Matsui reintroduce their bill to block discriminatory algorithms. Sen. Edward ...

From recruiting software that favours men to facial recognition systems that struggle to identify Black faces, artificial intelligence (AI) technology often reflects entrenched bias, campaigners say ...

In June 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) went into effect. The federal law requires employers to give pregnant employees reasonable accommodations, such as getting appropriately sized ...

Preventing discrimination requires that we have means of detecting it, and this can be enormously difficult when human beings are making the underlying decisions. As applied today, algorithms can ...