Way back in 2015, we wrote a cover story for Governing about bad data. We wrote that “data is the lifeblood of state government. It's the crucial commodity that's necessary to manage projects, avoid ...

Cybersecurity experts say AI and automation are changing how much impact manipulated data can have on government technology systems.

If you work with data, or data people, you’ve probably heard the saying “garbage in, garbage out.” It’s shorthand for what happens when you train models on poor-quality data. The point is this: If you ...

The fourth quarter 2023 crime report from the FBI, the federal government’s keeper of crime data, is unreliable at best and deceptive at worst. The FBI’s preliminary 2023 data show murder declined by ...

It’s no surprise to anyone who works with data—it’s messy. In every industry and every business, there are data anomalies and issues that can impact the story data tells. If we have any hope of ...

Virtually all of the Army’s weapons are affected by delayed or backordered parts—and mismatched computer systems are largely to blame. And it’s only been a month since a new digital tool has started ...

Bad customer data – databases where customer data is inaccurate, incomplete and inconsistent – causes huge issues for financial institutions. Accurate customer data informs effective customer ...

Hirundo AI Ltd., a startup that’s helping artificial intelligence models “forget” bad data that causes them to hallucinate and generate bad responses, said today it has raised $8 million in seed ...

Mental illness is often, on some level, a problem of bad data and processing issues. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, for example, begins with a simple processing error ...

How the AI industry uses water and how that impacts an increasingly parched world is more complicated than people think.

The abortion pill mifepristone "is not safe and effective," argue the authors of a new study that uses insurance claim data to examine adverse reactions to the pill. They claim to have found a ...

Outperforming humans is one thing, but its rapid rise has meant that AI has created some problems for itself – and we're nervous. Last week, we discussed AI's incredible evolution in terms of its ...