Society often relies on social algorithms that adapt to human behavior. Yet scientists struggle to generalize the combined behavior of mutually-adapting humans and algorithms. This scientific ...

Why do algorithms keep showing us content we claim not to want? The answer isn’t manipulation—it’s conflict between our ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...

Imagine that a ride-sharing driver receives a request for a pickup, and it’s up to the driver to accept or decline. The ride-sharing company’s algorithm has determined that this is a good ...