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If you searched for "three white teenagers" on Google Images earlier this month, the result spat up shiny, happy people in droves - an R.E.M. song in JPG format. The images, mostly stock photos, displayed young Caucasian men and women laughing, holding sports equipment or caught whimsically mid-selfie. If you searched for "three black teenagers," the algorithm offered an array of mug shots.

Search term brings back mainly results of black women, which some say is evidence of bias. But algorithms may just be reflecting the wider social landscape

Algorithms used in American criminal justice is found to be biased against blacks

Google came under fire this week after its new Photos app categorized photos in one of the most racist ways possible. On June 28th, computer programmer Jacky Alciné found that the feature kept tagging pictures of him and his girlfriend as "gorillas."

"A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook's censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression."

Researchers say Google's ad-targeting system sometimes makes troubling decisions based on data about gender and other personal characteristics.

"Nearly three years after the company was called out, it hasn't gone beyond a quick workaround"

"The big companies developing them show no interest in fixing the problem."

An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions

Object detection kit, scanning objects for a cleaner city

"Have you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?"