Algorithms are designed to learn user preferences by observing user behaviour. This causes algorithms to fail to reflect user preferences when psychological biases affect user decision making. For ...

Audrey G. Bennett receives funding from the NEH and NSF. Ron Eglash receives funding from the NSF. The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of ...

In 2019, the world fretted that algorithms now know us better than we know ourselves. No concept captures this better than surveillance capitalism, a term coined by American writer Shoshana Zuboff to ...