Council of Europe – AI as a risk to enhance discrimination – Pre 06 2019

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Working title: Council of Europe – AI as a risk to enhance discrimination

Session teaser

Until 15 April 2019.

Session description

AI can have discriminatory effects, for instance because of data based on biased human decisions. In the public and private sector, AI-enabled decisions are made in many key areas of life – recruitment, admission to universities, credit, insurance, eligibility for pension payments, housing assistance, or unemployment benefits, predictive policing, judicial decisions and many more. Many small decisions, taken together, can have large effects. Non-discrimination law and data protection law, if effectively enforced could address AI-driven discrimination. However, there is a deficit of awareness law enforcement and monitoring bodies and the general public. AI also enables new types of unfair differentiation or discrimination that escape current laws. Most non-discrimination statutes only apply to discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics, such as skin color while AI system invents new classes, which do not correlate with protected characteristics, to differentiate between people. We probably need additional regulation to protect fairness and human rights in the area of AI. But is regulating AI in general the right approach, as the use of AI systems is too varied for one set of rules. In different sectors, different values are at stake, and different problems arise. Therefore, sector-specific rules should be considered. The community of industry, public authorities and civil society should address this issue in the current Internet governance debate.

Format

Until 30 April 2019.

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Further reading

Until 30 April 2019.

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People

Prof. Borgesius, Prof. Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Professor of Law, Radboud University, NL (moderator)

Kirsi Pimiä, Anti-Discrimination Ombudsman, Finland

Tanya O’Carroll, Director, Amnesty Tech, Amnesty International

Meeri Haataja, CEO & Co-Founder, Saidot.ai

Menno Ettemma, Policy Officer, Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination, Council of Europe