Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The data-driven revolution is prefaced upon the idea that data and ...

SEATTLE — Companies are increasingly using algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze the massive amount of data they scoop up about us to decide what financial products we qualify for and ...

One fact about machine learning and data algorithms that may surprise business users is that there aren’t actually that many of them. This topic can get overwhelming for busy professionals. But in ...

The Federal Trade Commission says it’s considering drafting new rules for US businesses that would more strongly regulate how they can use data and algorithms, in the latest move to clamp down on ...

Business leaders and social scientists know: bad data in, bad data out. As the country struggles with demands for systemic change in policing, would-be reformers are suggesting that "data-driven ...

The algorithms that underlie modern artificial-intelligence (AI) systems need lots of data on which to train. Much of that data comes from the open web which, unfortunately, makes the AIs susceptible ...