Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that ...

When asked if the Ranch Fire, a 4,293-acre fire in San Bernardino County, was contained, the chatbot said that the “latest” update as of June 10 showed the fire was 50% contained. At the time ...

Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

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Investigative Data JournalistLeon Yin translates story ideas into testable hypotheses—the cornerstone of our journalism. He builds bespoke datasets and uses interdisciplinary methods to report on ...

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In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation after it cleared the House ...

Investigative Data JournalistMaddy Varner was an investigative data journalist for The Markup. She left in May 2023. Maddy extracts datasets from public documents and databases to help build a more ...

Machine Learning We’re Not Living a “Predicted” Life: Student Perspectives on Wisconsin’s Dropout Algorithm Wisconsin took down its dropout predictions after a Markup investigation. Here’s what two ...

Split Screen cannot reverse-engineer Facebook’s recommendation algorithm, and none of our observations should be treated as causal claims that Facebook has targeted a specific piece of content at a ...

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