Data mining shows black people waited longer than white people to vote in 2016

The result, obtained from mobile-phone records, raises an obvious question–why?

The connection between video games and mass shootings isn’t just wrong—it’s racist

When a perpetrator is a young white man, people blame video games. If he’s black, people make up a troublingly racist narrative.

Facebook’s ad-serving algorithm discriminates by gender and race

Even if an advertiser is well-intentioned, the algorithm still prefers certain groups of people over others.

This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix

Bias can creep in at many stages of the deep-learning process, and the standard practices in computer science aren’t designed to detect it.

AI’s white guy problem isn’t going away

A new report says current initiatives to fix the field’s diversity crisis are too narrow and shallow to be effective.

Google’s algorithm for detecting hate speech is racially biased

AI systems meant to spot abusive online content are far more likely to label tweets “offensive” if they were posted by people who identify as African-American.