As data science has developed in recent decades, algorithms have come to play a role in assisting decision-making in a wide variety of contexts, making predictions that in some cases have enormous ...

Scientists have unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, dubbed as the "doom calculator," that can predict individuals' chances of dying within four years with an impressive accuracy of ...

An algorithm commonly used by hospitals and other health systems to predict which patients are most likely to need follow-up care classified white patients overall as being more ill than black ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Thirteen health systems in Greater Philadelphia are working as a coalition to ...

A recent study published in Science Magazine found significant racial bias in an algorithm used by hospitals across the nation to determine who needs follow-up care and who does not. Shraddha ...

A widely used health care algorithm that helps determine which patients need additional attention was found to have a significant racial bias, favoring white patients over blacks ones who were sicker ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that it could ...

EXPLAINS THE SCIENCE BEHIND A STUDY TO KEEP OUR TECH ACCOUNTAE.BL ALANNA: ALGORITHMS CONTROL SO MUCH OF WHAT IS USED TODAY, FROM WATCHES, TO TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND THAT INCLUDES DATA USED BY GOVERNMENT ...