Algorithms that predict crime are watching – and judging us by the cards we’ve been dealt

by admin | Mar 31, 2024 | algorithms, Crime, criminal statistics, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation

Your money, postcode, friends and family can make all the difference to how the criminal system treats you. The New South Wales police recently scrapped a widely condemned program known as the Suspect Targeting Management Plan. It used algorithmic risk scores to...

AI: we may not need a new human right to protect us from decisions by algorithms – the laws already exist

by admin | Oct 13, 2023 | ADM, AI, algorithms, human rights, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation

There are risks and harms that come with relying on algorithms to make decisions. People are already feeling the impact of doing so. Whether reinforcing racial biases or spreading misinformation, many technologies that are labelled as artificial intelligence (AI) help...

Algorithms can be useful in detecting fake news, stopping its spread and countering misinformation

by admin | Jun 12, 2023 | algorithms, fake news, Internet, Internet News, News, The Conversation

Fake news is a complex problem and can span text, images and video. For written articles in particular, there are several ways of generating fake news. A fake news article could be produced by selectively editing facts, including people’s names, dates or statistics....

Feed me: 4 ways to take control of social media algorithms and get the content you actually want

by admin | May 12, 2023 | algorithms, Internet News, News, Social media, The Conversation

Whether it’s Facebook’s News Feed or TikTok’s For You page, social media algorithms are constantly making behind-the-scenes decisions to boost certain content – giving rise to the “curated” feeds we’ve all become accustomed to. But does anyone actually know how these...

Algorithms are moulding and shaping our politics. Here’s how to avoid being gamed

by admin | Mar 22, 2023 | algorithms, Guptas, Internet News, Jacob Zuma, News, Social media, The Conversation, Twitter

In 2016, evidence began to mount that then-South African president Jacob Zuma and a family of Indian-born businessmen, the Guptas, were responsible for widespread “state capture”. It was alleged that the Gupta family influenced Zuma’s political appointments and...