📢NEW: The @AdaLovelaceInst, @AINowInstitute & @opengovpart have partnered on the first global study of the regulations and policy tools governing the use of algorithms in the public sector.
Governments across the world are using algorithms to automate decisions, but there's growing evidence that these systems can cause harm, frequently lack transparency and are implemented often without public input.
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In response, regulators, lawmakers and civil society orgs have turned to regulatory and policy tools to ensure that these algorithms are held accountable.
Our report analyses these fast-emerging and evolving responses. bit.ly/AlgorithmicTra…
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The report includes:
🔹analysis on the limits of legal and policy mechanisms in ensuring safe & accountable algorithmic systems
🔹practical guidance for policymakers, civil society, public officials & agencies
🔹open questions and directions for future research.
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In addition to our institutional partners, this project has been possible thanks to the incredible work of lead researcher Divij Joshi (@divijualsuspect) + project leads @TonuBasu, Jenny Brennan (@Jennyhbren) & Amba Kak (@ambaonadventure).
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📚It's the second of three annual reading weeks at @AdaLovelaceInst.
This is time for the whole team to step back from emailing and Zooming to replenish our stores of knowledge.
Here are some of the books on our list. What else should we be reading?👇
1⃣Cyber Republic: Reinventing democracy in the age of intelligent machines by @zarkadakis.
How to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable: a guide for the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution. mitpress.mit.edu/books/cyber-re…
2⃣ Silicon Values: The future of free speech under surveillance capitalism by @jilliancyork.
As NHS trials new contact tracing app, new report by @AdaLovelaceInst & @traversepeople finds the public want to see evidence it works alongside independent oversight.
Over three weeks in May 2020, the @AdaLovelaceInst, @traversepeople, @involveUK & @BangtheTable convened a rapid online discussion with 28 members of the public to explore attitudes to the use of #COVID19 related technologies for transitioning out of lockdown.
The 'mini public' debated circumstances under which the use of tech like the contact tracing app would be an appropriate part of the #COVID19 response.
Join @sarahdrinkwater, @thomasmhughes and @safiyanoble at 17:00 BST to explore:
🔹what is ‘good’?
🔹who is responsible for ‘good’?
🔹how can we embed ‘good’ into structures and processes to make tech work for people and society?
1⃣ @safiyanoble speak for those most vulnerable & those in crosshairs of technology design pay the highest price. We are living in a moment of #BlackLivesMatter outpouring through technology and people using technology to protest, connect, bolster calls for police accountability.
2⃣ We have to talk about the implications of technologies. But does ethics defang and undermine the political implications of technology's responsibility for real harms: being the vessels, microphones, amplifiers for calls for hate and harms? And defangs a structural analysis?
The Ada Lovelace Institute Ethics & Society Stage kicks off at 10am this morning with 'Do we need more WEIRDos in Whitehall' with @ChiOnwurah@Jackstilgoe@JeniT and @JohnNaughton
We'll be pulling out key points from the discussion in the thread below 👇
'We have passed peak trust' says @ChiOnwurah and Goverment missing tricks on data sharing, transparency, protecting digital citizens. She calls for a digital charter that empowers citizens and builds an ecosystem of digital governance.
Whitehall needs diversity of thought, expertise and people in Whitehall that believe in empowering citizens, bringing agency to lives and futures, not something WEIRDos will bring but can be achieved by opening up Whitehall and minds to an active view of technology in society.
The UK Government wants to roll out a digital #ContactTracing app in 2-3 weeks.
Building on our rapid evidence review, we've outlined the steps needed to make an app trustworthy, before it’s deployed. #ExitThroughTheAppStore#COVID19
We're just about to kick off our webinar on the data governance of #ContactTracingApp. Discussing centralised/decentralised approaches and what they mean for the present and future of health and privacy.
We'll tweet some key points in this thread
We have three key questions to discuss on #ContactTracingApp, they focus on: 1- Efficacy of the Apps
2-Legal and Technical safeguards, policy instruments
3-Public Trust, you can't have public trust without guaranteed efficacy and safeguards
First up, @rossjanderson underlines that it is key to know what will happen to all the data after the emergency, also the data collected through conventional manual methods and it is concerning that we do not have the right legal safeguards in place.