discrimination

Algorithms now help decide who gets credit and at what price. The research on whether they reduce or reproduce lending discrimination is mixed, and U.S. rules are shifting.

Algorithms trained on human data inherit human prejudices, and often apply them at scale without anyone noticing until real harm is done. This article traces how bias enters AI systems, documents well-sourced failures, and explains why fairness cannot be reduced to one number.

The United States reports 11,000+ hate crimes annually — but reporting rates are low. Germany reports 40,000+ politically motivated crimes. Sweden and UK lead European hate crime reporting. Most countries have no systematic hate crime data at all. Here's what we know about hate crime globally.