12 unexpected ways algorithms control your life Algorithms determine whether you get into college, get a job, or get an apartment, and their work goes largely unnoticed. Until they screw up.

I spend all day making decisions, and they’re not always good ones. Could an algorithm do a better job of deciding what’s best for me?

The algorithm has let me down; I continue typing with my own fingers like it’s 2017. Day 4 When I open Spotify today, I get a popup urging me to vote in the European elections.

For example, many algorithms produce decisions with a racist or sexist result because they have been trained on data from a racist, sexist world.

For example, there have been concerns about whether the data going into facial-recognition technology can make the algorithm racist.

Algorithms are a staple of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to wade through deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes, information, products, people and investments ...

How algorithms are controlling your life And why you should probably pay closer attention.

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. In the digital age, personalized algorithms are our constant ...