Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

In an interview in May, the head of the Israeli military intelligence’s targeting division responded to outrage over the civilian death toll in Gaza by boasting that algorithmic surveillance systems ...

Zachary Tyler Vickers is the author of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the recipient of the Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Richard Yates Prize, the ...