Big data: friend or foe?

Researchers studying different social media platforms identify how algorithms play a key role in the dissemination of anti-Muslim content, prompting wider hate against the community. US Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar has often been a target of online hate. But much of the hate directed at …

Based on inaccurate and overtly biased content from the web, an experimental robot favours men over women, suggests Black people are criminals and appoints stereotypical occupations to women and Latino men. Researchers observing a robot operating with a popular Internet-based artificial intelligence system found that …