NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Algorithms can be more fair than humans

  • Written by H V Jagadish, Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
imageHow fast can it get here?Box delivery image via Hadrian / Shutterstock.com

Amazon recently began to offer same-day delivery in selected metropolitan areas. This may be good for many customers, but the rollout shows how computerized decision-making can also deliver a strong dose of discrimination.

Sensibly, the company began its service in areas...

Read more: Algorithms can be more fair than humans

More Articles ...

  1. Nuclear power deserves a level playing field
  2. Compete or suckle: Should troubled nuclear reactors be subsidized?
  3. Is misuse of prescription painkillers among youth athletes leading to heroin use?
  4. Why the guns-on-campus debate matters for American higher education
  5. Here's what coworkers think when you suck up to your boss
  6. Don't run (and don't laugh): The little-known history of racewalking
  7. Disasters and kids – how to help them recover
  8. The political role of drone strikes in US grand strategy
  9. Range anxiety? Today's electric cars can cover vast majority of daily U.S. driving needs
  10. Not easy being blue: Fatal shootings, job stress make it hard to be a cop
  11. Making college matter
  12. Turkey's post-coup commitment to democracy offers chance to resolve Kurdish crisis
  13. Are U.S. politics beyond a joke?
  14. Parasitic flies, zombified ants, predator beetles – insect drama on Mexican coffee plantations
  15. Beyond borders: Why we need global action to protect migratory birds
  16. Why science and engineering need to remind students of forgotten lessons from history
  17. So what if some female Olympians have high testosterone?
  18. Why get a liberal education? It is the life and breath of medicine
  19. Breaking the fourth wall in human-computer interaction: Really talking to each other
  20. Dusty plasma in the universe and in the laboratory
  21. Is the US electoral system really 'rigged'?
  22. How the IOC effectively maintains a gag order on nonsponsors of the Olympics
  23. As Rio bay waters show, we badly need innovation in treating human wastes
  24. Cotton farmers profit from simple steps to help pollinators
  25. Is the 'lesser of two evils' an ethical choice for voters?
  26. Setting robots in motion, quickly and efficiently
  27. How adult learners are not getting 21st-century skills
  28. Why you shouldn't want to always be happy
  29. Trump's and Clinton's economy plans: eight essential reads
  30. Most students borrow for college, but are they financially literate?
  31. Turkey's coup and the call to prayer: Sounds of violence meet Islamic devotionals
  32. When disaster-response apps fail
  33. Uber's Didi deal dispels Chinese 'El Dorado' myth once and for all
  34. What can a 1.7-million-year-old hominid fossil teach us about cancer?
  35. The flossing flap: Mind your dentist, and floss every night
  36. When doping wasn't considered cheating
  37. Why utilities have little incentive to plug leaking natural gas
  38. Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape
  39. Some good news on opioid epidemic: Treatment options are expanding
  40. Putin, Obama and the battle for Aleppo
  41. Why save a computer virus?
  42. Remembering Michael Brown: Why black youth are branded as criminals
  43. Here's how competition makes peer review more unfair
  44. Trump's economics speech: seeking conservative cred and kissing babies
  45. How do Olympic athletes pay the electric bill?
  46. Goodbye to the barbershop?
  47. How labor's decline opened door to billionaire Trump as 'savior' of American workers
  48. Record high global migration may give new meaning to 'diaspora'
  49. Fethullah Gülen: public intellectual or public enemy?
  50. Who owns your tattoo? Maybe not you