In late 2016, Hugh Harvey was working as a consultant doctor in the UK’s National Health Service. Harvey had dabbled in machine learning while doing a research degree, and had seen the...
For Sander van der Linden, misinformation is personal.As a child in the Netherlands, the University of Cambridge social psychologist discovered that almost all of his mother’s family had been executed by the...
It has been said that algorithms are “opinions embedded in code.” Few people understand the implications of that better than Abeba Birhane. Born and raised in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Birhane moved to Ireland...
