Why we should not fear Artificial Intelligence
The emergence of a new technology requires new rules: how do we deal with robots? by Lorena Jaume-Palasí The idea of an automated society, filled with robots at home and at work, was one of the Utopias – and Dystopias –...
AlgorithmWatch receives Theodor-Heuss-Medal 2018
On 16 June 2018 AlgorithmWatch will be awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal for “encouraging a differentiated debate about criteria for development of artificial intelligence”, as the Theodor Heuss Foundation states. The Theodor Heuss Award Foundation is a nonpartisan entity and...
Call for participation: Algorithmic accountability reporting track at EIJC18 & DataHarvest Conference
Do you have a great story to share of how you investigated an automated decision making (ADM) system? Are you in the middle of doing research on an ADM and can tell us a little about how it’s going? Do...
OpenSCHUFA – shedding light on Germany’s opaque credit scoring
Why we started OpenSCHUFA, why you should care about credit scoring & how you can help.
AlgorithmWatch has been awarded funding by Bertelsmann Stiftung and Hans Böckler Foundation
How can we bring more transparency to automated decision making (ADM) processes that have a significant impact on our societies? And what consequences has the use of ADM systems in human resources management, and therefore for workers’ rights and co-determination...
Ethics and algorithmic processes for decision making and decision support
Current ethical debates about the consequences of automation focus on the rights of individuals. But algorithmic processes exhibit a collective dimension. In our working paper, we therefore suggest ways to better take this dimension into account.
Video: Frank Pasquale at Luxemburg Lectures
Pasquale is one of the leading scholars on algorithmic accountability and professor of law at the University of Maryland and author of “The Black Box Society. The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information”
Luxemburg Lecture with Frank Pasquale and AlgorithmWatch, May 11, 7 pm in Berlin
Coming Thursday (May 11th) we will discuss the question of how to hold algorithms accountable with Frank Pasquale, one of the leading scholars on algorithmic accountability and professor of law at the University of Maryland and author of “The Black Box...
Watching the watchers: Epstein and Robertson’s „Search Engine Manipulation Effect“
1. Watching the watchers: Epstein and Robertson’s „Search Engine Manipulation Effect“ In July, 2015, Epstein and Robertson published a widely acknowledged study on how much a biased search engine result ranking can shift undecided voters towards one candidate [1]. In...
The ethical abyss of big data research
“If a dataset can be downloaded from the web, regardless of whether it originated from a breach or other illegal activity, it is considered to be in the public domain and falls under the IRB exemption for public domain datasets.”...