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More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.

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The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.

Pluribus, a poker-playing algorithm, can beat the world’s top human players, proving that machines, too, can master our mind games.

Because sometimes tools designed to help us assess performance and potential just don’t