Topic: Mitigating Harm + Bias
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How to determine whether AI is an appropriate solution for public sector challenges
This toolkit provides a checklist of items to help determine whether AI-powered tools are appropriate for specific use cases in the public sector.
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AI Strategy for the Federal Public Service 2025-2027
This strategy document establishes a governance framework and roadmap to ensure responsible, trustworthy, and effective AI use across Canadian federal institutions.
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AI Toolkit
Guidance and Resources for Policymakers, Teachers and Parents to Advance AI Readiness in Ohio Schools.
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Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has identified five principles that should guide the design, use, and deployment of automated systems to protect the American public in the age of artificial intelligence. These principles help provide guidance whenever automated systems can meaningfully impact the public’s rights, opportunities, or access to critical needs.
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State of Oregon Government Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council Final Recommended Action Plan
This action plan outlines Oregon’s strategic approach to adopting AI in state government, emphasizing ethical use, privacy, transparency, and workforce readiness.
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AI Action Plan Database
This is a searchable tool that compiles and categorizes over 4,700 policy recommendations submitted in response to the U.S. government's 2025 Request for Information on artificial intelligence policy.
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The Social Life of Algorithmic Harms
This series of essays seeks to expand our vocabulary of algorithmic harms to help protect against them.
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Popular Support for Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Resource Allocation
This study examines public attitudes toward balancing equity and efficiency in algorithmic resource allocation, using online advertising for SNAP enrollment as a case study.
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Screened & Scored in the District of Columbia
This report by EPIC investigates how automated decision-making (ADM) systems are used across Washington, D.C.’s public services and the resulting impacts on equity, privacy, and access to benefits.
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Legacy Procurement Practices Shape How U.S. Cities Govern AI: Understanding Government Employees’ Practices, Challenges, and Needs
This paper explores how legacy procurement processes in U.S. cities shape the acquisition and governance of AI tools, based on interviews with local government employees.
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To AI or Not To AI: A Practice Guide for Public Agencies to Decide Whether to Proceed with Artificial Intelligence
This guide helps public agencies assess whether to use AI by providing a structured framework to evaluate appropriateness, risks, and alternatives.
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Responsible AI
This paper argues that a human rights framework could help orient the research on artificial intelligence away from machines and the risks of their biases, and towards humans and the risks to their rights, helping to center the conversation around who is harmed, what harms they face, and how those harms may be mitigated.