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Automation + AI Algorithmic Accountability: Moving Beyond Audits
This report explores how despite unresolved concerns, an audit-centered algorithmic accountability approach is being rapidly mainstreamed into voluntary frameworks and regulations.
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Medicaid Strategies Making a Difference: A Spotlight on Rhode Island
Sharing lessons learned via the Medicaid Churn Learning Collaborative, which is working to reduce Medicaid churn, improve renewal processes for administrators, and protect health insurance coverage for children and families.
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Digital Identity Regulating Biometrics: Taking Stock of a Rapidly Changing Landscape
This post reflects on and excerpts from AI Now's 2020 report on biometrics regulation.
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Automation + AI Who Audits the Auditors? Recommendations from a Field Scan of the Algorithmic Auditing Ecosystem
Through a field scan, this paper identifies emerging best practices as well as methods and tools that are becoming commonplace, and enumerates common barriers to leveraging algorithmic audits as effective accountability mechanisms.
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Communications Bias-Free Language
The guidelines for bias-free language contain both general guidelines for writing about people without bias across a range of topics and specific guidelines that address the individual characteristics of age, disability, gender, participation in research, racial and ethnic identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and intersectionality.
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Automation + AI Automated Decision-Making Systems and Discrimination
This guidebook offers an introduction to the risks of discrimination when using automated decision-making systems. This report also includes helpful definitions related to automation.
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Automation + AI Access Denied: Faulty Automated Background Checks Freeze Out Renters
This reporting explores how algorithms used to screen prospective tenants, including those waiting for public housing, can block renters from housing based on faulty information.
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Automation + AI Framing the Risk Management Framework: Actionable Instructions by NIST in their “Govern” Section
This post introduces EPIC's exploration of actionable recommendations and points of agreement from leading A.I. frameworks, beginning with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's AI Risk Management Framework.
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Automation + AI Assembling Accountability: Algorithmic Impact Assessment for the Public Interest
This project maps the challenges of constructing algorithmic impact assessments (AIAs) by analyzing impact assessments in other domains—from the environment to human rights to privacy and identifies ten needed components for a robust impact assessment.
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Management Executive Order No. 614: Establishing the Digital Accessibility and Equity Governance Board
Executive Order in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts establishing the Digital Accessibility and Equity Governance Board
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Automation + AI Digital Welfare States and Human Rights
In this report, the UN Special Rapporteur critically examines uses of digital technologies for administration of welfare programs across international contexts, and makes recommendations for using technology responsibly and ethically.
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Automation + AI POVERTY LAWGORITHMS: A Poverty Lawyer’s Guide to Fighting Automated Decision-Making Harms on Low-Income Communities
This guide, directed at poverty lawyers, explains automated decision-making systems so lawyers and advocates can better identify the source of their clients' problems and advocate on their behalf. Relevant for practitioners, this report covers key questions around automated decision-making systems.