MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India wants lenders to ensure that algorithms used to make or materially influence credit decisions can explain why a borrower has been rejected, putting accountability and ...

Machine learning is, more or less, a way for computers to learn things without being specifically programmed. But how does that actually happen? Most simply: algorithms. We’ve put together a summary ...

Dominant tech companies will have to explain how their algorithms work under proposed new EU rules and also open up their ad archives to regulators and researchers, Europe’s digital and antitrust ...

Increasingly, businesses rely on algorithms that use data provided by users to make decisions that affect people. For example, Amazon, Google, and Facebook use algorithms to tailor what users see, and ...

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has created computers that can drive cars, synthesize chemical compounds, fold proteins and detect high-energy particles at a superhuman level. However, these ...

Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. The ...

The European Union pushed new legislation for the technology companies in the world, and it will require them to explain their algorithms to many people and corporations. The new law would require ...

Communist Party officials in Zhejiang province say platforms’ algorithms and “traffic power” now shape public opinion and can deepen social divisions, and they want regulators to set clearer limits.