"For tenants, the system upends the practice of negotiating with apartment building staff. RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise _...Read More_

"The viral image-generation app is good, absurd fun. It’s also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality."

“Interacting online today means being besieged by system-generated recommendations. Do we want what the machines tell us we want?”

>"What does a platform want you to remember?"

Through a Computer Screen Darkly: A Conversation with Meghan O’Gieblyn. >"This is the way that algorithms see us — collectively, as _...Read More_

"The future is also immanent in the present. It is the virtual and what shapes affective anticipations and the constructed political necessity for _...Read More_

"If motorized machines constituted the second age of the technical machine, cybernetic and informational machines form a third age that reconstructs a generalized _...Read More_

"We may find ourselves with AI systems that have perfect scores on measures of algorithmic trust, even as the world in which they operate has become more distrustful and destabilized than ever."

A sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse.

"An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun"

Our smartphones pulse with memories now. In normal times, we may strain to remember things for practical reasons-where we parked the car-or we may stumble into surprise associations between the present and the past, like when a whiff of _...Read More_

"As more of our lives are mediated through the internet, private companies cannot be allowed to dictate the terms on which we relate to each other, argue Tim Scriven and Aleks Wansbrough."

>"On my recent birthday, only four of my 711 Facebook “friends” wrote on my wall. It was tempting to assume that people scrolling their news _...Read More_