Authors: Sebastiaan Berendsen and Emma Beauxis-Aussalet AI systems are vulnerable for biases that can lead to unfair and harmful outcomes. Methods to detect such biases in AI systems rely on sensitive data. However, this reliance on sensitive data is problematic due to ethical and legal concerns. Sensitive data is essential Read more…
Last week, the renowned French philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist Bruno Latour passed away at age 75 (1947-2022). Latour is considered to be one of the most influential thinkers of modern-day science. His Actor-Network theory (ANT) and mediation theory are known to provide an alternative perspective to the famous subject-object dichotomy, Read more…
We are very proud to announce that this January, the Civic AI Lab [1] was awarded to be part of the UNESCO’s TOP 100 International List of Artificial Intelligence (henceforth: AI) solutions for sustainable development for the benefit of humanity [2]. The TOP 100 was created by the International Research Read more…
Automated decision-making affects governmental decision-making processes in terms of accountability, explainability, and democratic power. For instance, deciding on acceptable error rates reflects important value judgments that can have far-reaching ethical impacts for citizens. Error analysis is an important determinant for the design and deployment choices in algorithms. Public authorities, therefore, Read more…