The bulletin features the latest news, events and initiatives linking to AI governance. We post weekly highlights to showcase the range of activities around AIGA’s core themes: explainability, transparency, system design and commercialization of responsible AI.
- Can auditing eliminate bias from algorithms? A reporter talks to algorithmic auditors and asks key questions about the emerging field.
Read more: https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2021/02/23/can-auditing-eliminate-bias-from-algorithms - The H2020-funded SIENNA project organizes a final conference on Ethics, Human Rights & Emerging Technologies 10-12 March.
Check the program and register: https://www.sienna-project.eu/final-conference/ - The 14th International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP 2021) was organized fully online in January. Now several sessions have been uploaded to Youtube and we curated a list of the most interesting sessions from the AI governance perspective:
“AI Audits: black box vs. white box perspectives”
View session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZZ6OApkDhU
“AI regulation in Europe & fundamental rights”
View session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p2RDRi6QyM
“How can regulation help build trustworthy artificial intelligence”
View session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muZBTeLtPcs
“Algorithm-assisted decision-making in the public sector: govern algorithms, while governing by algorithms”
View session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7-S3tq5PmI
“Automated decision-making: towards effective remedies in a changing world?”
View session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOoSWuvon8s
“Global AI Governance: perspectives from four continents”
View session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rrKzI2_GKM
“Augmented compliance: The case of algorithmic impact assessment”
View session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBUBcmoDon0
- Pertti Saariluoma explores the foundations of trust in the ETAIROS blog. He states that the trust, whether placed on humans or AI applications, should be based on facts.
Read more: https://etairos.fi/2021/03/01/jarkiperainen-luottamus/ [in Finnish]