Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen ...

The Minneapolis City Council voted to ban rent algorithms in Minneapolis on Thursday, making it the fourth U.S. city to ban them. Minneapolis City Council members held a press conference Thursday ...

Pep Guardiola has transformed the Manchester City team into a footballing machine, demonstrating a consistent pattern of success through Erling Haaland’s explosive defensive penetration and Rodri’s ...

Mayor de Blasio at a 2016 crime statistics briefing. The Brennan Center recently won partial disclosure of materials related to the NYPD's predictive policing pilot—a technology that data scientists ...

Amsterdam and Helsinki today launched AI registries to detail how each city government uses algorithms to deliver services, some of the first major cities in the world to do so. An AI Register for ...

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The New York City Mayor's Office has created a senior-level position to manage the city's use of algorithms. The Algorithms Management and Policy Officer, created this week through executive order by ...