Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss.

Many books on artificial intelligence (AI) illuminate the pathologies of AI. These pathologies are created by artificial intelligence or better as artificial “intelligment” since AI may not be that ...

Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding ...

That is one of the animating assumptions of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, the journalist and critic Kyle Chayka’s new book. “Filterworld,” as Chayka defines it, is the ...

In the book, she intersperses its voice with her own, like pieces of found poems. Silva’s algorithm is less refined than today’s models, and so its language is stranger and more prone to ...

Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who owns books and at least one shelf. The algorithm addresses ...

Make sure to subscribe to our Book Club newsletter, where Ron Charles guides you through the literary news of the week. Filterworld — the addictive and stultifying algorithm-driven apocalypse ...