The recent use of an algorithm to calculate the graduating grades of secondary school students in England provoked so much public anger at its perceived unfairness that it’s widely become known as the ...

On 22 September, the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) announced its long-awaited National AI Strategy. The strategy paper sets out the government’s intended ...

Quantum computing holds a lot of promise. The question is when the hyped and indeed potentially revolutionising technology will begin to deliver on it. According to UK quantum startup Phasecraft, it’s ...

The U.K. government is suspending the use of an algorithm used to stream visa applications after concerns were raised the technology bakes in unconscious bias and racism. The tool had been the target ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. This “algorithmic processing” is commonplace and often beneficial, ...

WTF?! There have been several stories over the years about different governments creating crime-predicting algorithms, leading to comparisons to the 2002 movie Minority Report – even though that film ...

Platform is now Britain’s fourth most visited social media site as users seek out human-generated content ...

An earlier trial in the US is credited with halving views of toxic content sparked by recommendations. As such, the video-sharing giant is now actively moving against content which "brushes right up" ...