Overview: Recommendation algorithms study user behavior patterns to predict future choices.Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify use ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Cultural Economics suggests that highly accurate content recommendation algorithms might accidentally make our entertainment feel boring over time. The ...

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let ...

Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter's recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...

I've been working in data and artificial intelligence (AI) since it was just called statistics and applied math. But over the past decade, AI has approached a troubling inflection point. Notably, the ...

Last week, the United States Senate played host to a number of social media company VPs during hearings on the potential dangers presented by algorithmic bias and amplification. While that meeting ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Wired magazine’s “spiritual advice columnist,” Meghan O’Ghieblyn, ...