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Letter to the FTC on protecting consumer rights
Aug 22, 2018
Algorithmic Impact Assessments Report: A Practical Framework for Public Agency Accountability
Apr 9, 2018
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AI Experts Want Government Algorithms to Be Studied Like Environmental Hazards
AI Now, a nonprofit founded to study the societal impacts of AI, said an algorithmic impact assessment (AIA) would assure that the public and governments understand the scope, capability, and secondary impacts an algorithm could have, and people could voice concerns if an algorithm was behaving in a biased or unfair way.
Quartz
Apr 9, 2018
When Will Americans Be Angry Enough To Demand Honesty About Algorithms?
This week the AI Now Institute, a leading group studying the topic, published its own proposal. It’s called an “Algorithmic Impact Assessment,” or AIA, and it’s essentially an environmental impact report for automated software used by governments. “A similar process should take place before an agency deploys a new, high-impact automated decision system,” the group writes.
Fast Company
Feb 21, 2018
AI experts want to end ‘black box’ algorithms in government
The AI Now report calls for agencies to refrain from what it calls “black box” systems opaque to outside scrutiny. Kate Crawford, a researcher at Microsoft and cofounder of AI Now, says citizens should be able to know how systems making decisions about them operate and have been tested or validated.
Wired
Oct 18, 2017
