Algorithms are everywhere. You rely on them every day to make countless important decisions. You hit the search button in Google, and the search engine filters through millions of webpages to find ...

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 ...

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 Department of Housing and Urban Development is the nation’s chief civil rights enforcer for housing, charged with protecting the most vulnerable against housing discrimination. But a new proposed ...

On Nov. 20, Mary Louis, a Black woman, was awarded a whopping $2.2 million settlement in her lawsuit against SafeRent Solutions, a third-party service that provides resident screening and applicant ...

Are algorithms a threat to justice? Will they increase discrimination on the basis of race and sex? Many people think so. According to a recent survey, nearly three in five Americans believe ...

New “first of its kind” legislation that would ban discrimination based on algorithm bias was introduced in D.C. on Thursday. Attorney General for the District Karl Racine said that the Stop ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems and algorithmic decision-making are mainstays of every sector the global economy. From search engine recommendations and advertising to credit scoring and ...

As businesses have embraced remote work, more and more jobs have become accessible to people who worked from home out of necessity well before the pandemic. For people with disabilities—many of whom ...

Algorithms are sets of step-by-step instructions that tell a computer what to do. Algorithms can also be designed to learn by themselves instead of only following instructions. For example, pretend ...