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How does automated decision-making effect our daily lives? Where are the systems applied and what happens when something goes wrong? Read our journalistic investigations on the current use of ADM systems and their consequences.

1 April 2025

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Spanish National Police Halts Veripol, Its Flagship AI To Detect False Reports

The Ministry of Interior stated that it dismissed the system on the grounds that it had been proved being of no validity in judicial proceedings.

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Podcast False Positives Mockup with Mobile

December 30, 2024

False Positives: A Podcast on Financial Discrimination & De-banking

November 7, 2024

The Rise and Fall of a Predictive Policing Pioneer

July 18, 2024

For Trans People, Online Transitioning Can Be a Nightmare

May 29, 2024

Image Generators Are Trying to Hide Their Biases – And They Make Them Worse

May 27, 2024

“All Rise For the Honorable AI”: Algorithmic Management in Polish Electronic Courts

May 24, 2024

The Automated Fortress Europe: No Place for Human Rights

April 17, 2024

Italy Introduces Entirely Automated Public Tenders

March 28, 2024

Spanish Inmates Not to Be Automatically Monitored in Fear of AI Act

February 19, 2024

Austria’s Social Security Invests Over €50m in AI – Just for Bookkeeping?

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February 15, 2024

Fighting in the Dark: How Europeans Push Back Against Rogue AI

February 6, 2024

How Not to: We Failed at Analyzing Public Discourse on AI With ChatGPT

January 3, 2024

Work Inside the Machine: How Pre-saves and Algorithmic Marketing Turn Musicians into Influencers

December 19, 2023

Greece is planning a €40m automated surveillance system at borders with North Macedonia and Albania

December 18, 2023

The year we waited for action: 2023 in review

November 20, 2023

Plant-identifying apps: good for amateurs, bad for students

November 17, 2023

Not a solution: Meta’s new AI system to contain discriminatory ads

November 2, 2023

Some image generators produce more problematic stereotypes than others, but all fail at diversity

October 24, 2023

Algorithmic blood donations in Ukraine

October 11, 2023

Food delivery service Glovo: tracking riders’ private location and other infringements

September 26, 2023

Spain under shock as schoolboys create fake nudes using generative models

September 25, 2023

Generative Artificial Intelligence is slowly entering children’s lives

September 18, 2023

Automated navigation systems are still wreaking havoc on small towns’ streets

July 19, 2023

Peeking into the Black Box

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July 18, 2023

200 students failed their exams. Automated proctoring could be to blame, but doubts remain 

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