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== People ==  
== People ==  
'''Focal Point''': Matthias Spielkamp, Algorithm Watch
'''Focal Point''': Matthias Spielkamp, Algorithm Watch
'''Key participants'''  
'''Key participants'''  
* [https://be.linkedin.com/in/achimklabunde Achim Klabunde, Head of Sector IT Policy at European Data Protection Supervisor]
* [https://be.linkedin.com/in/achimklabunde Achim Klabunde, Head of Sector IT Policy at European Data Protection Supervisor]
* Hans-Peter Dittler, ISOC board of trustees
* Hans-Peter Dittler, ISOC board of trustees
* Matthias Spielkamp, Algorithm Watch
* Matthias Spielkamp, Algorithm Watch
 
'''Ressource speakers:'''
Ressource speakers
* Cornelia Kutterer, Microsoft
* Cornelia Kutterer, Microsoft
* Elvana Thaci, Council of Europe
* Elvana Thaci, Council of Europe
'''Remote moderator''': Ayden Férdeline, New Media Summer School
'''Remote moderator''': Ayden Férdeline, New Media Summer School
 
'''Org team:''' Matthias Spielkamp, Algorithm Watch
'''Org team'''  
'''Reporter''': Lorena Jaume-Palasí, EuroDIG
* Matthias Spielkamp, Algorithm Watch
 
'''Reporter'''
Lorena Jaume-Palasí, EuroDIG


== Current discussion ==
== Current discussion ==

Revision as of 13:18, 21 June 2016


Please use your own words to describe this session. You may use external references, websites or publications as a source of information or inspiration, if you decide to quote them, please clearly specify the source.

Session description

An increasing share of our social interactions depends on the mediation by algorithmic decision making processes (ADM) or by algorithmic decision supporting processes. ADM and data-driven models serve to automate many of the factors affecting how news and information is produced and distributed and therefore shape the public discourse. [1] In the US, they are used for risk assessments before deciding who can be set free at every stage of the criminal justice system, from assigning bond amounts to even more fundamental decisions about defendants’ freedom. [2] In medical centers they are used as decision supporting tools in the diagnostics. The credit scores of individual’s and the performances of teachers and students are assessed partially or fully with algorithms. It is uncontested that AMD holds enormous promise and may contribute to the creation of less subjective, fairer processes and reduce the risk of careless mistakes. At the same time it carries enormous dangers of delegating discrimination to subtle automated processes that are too hermetic to be noticed. We need to discuss different questions relating to these technologies:

  • What kind of scrutiny does ADM have to be submitted to?
  • What objectives are meaningful, necessary and sufficient?
  • Do we need to look for intelligibility, transparency, accountability?
  • Can we expect any kind of control in light of self-learning systems?
  • If not, what needs to be the result - a ban on ADM in cases when fundamental rights are affected?
  • Would such a ban be enforceable?
  • And last but not least: Who is responsible for the outcomes of ADM - the designers of the systems, the coders, the entities implementing them, the users?

[1] http://www.datasociety.net/pubs/ap/QuestionsAssumptions_background-primer_2016.pdf

[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing

Keywords

Algorithms, Big Data, algorithmic accountability, data protection, human rights, innovation

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Focal Point: Matthias Spielkamp, Algorithm Watch Key participants

Ressource speakers:

  • Cornelia Kutterer, Microsoft
  • Elvana Thaci, Council of Europe

Remote moderator: Ayden Férdeline, New Media Summer School Org team: Matthias Spielkamp, Algorithm Watch Reporter: Lorena Jaume-Palasí, EuroDIG

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