Fighting Back on Algorithmic Opacity

Series on Responsible AI

A review of existing tools and policies that promote transparency in Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems

Algorithmic systems are plagued with opacity, and often become visible to the public only after their harms materialize.

Let’s take two prominent examples of opaque high-risk algorithmic systems.

In the Netherlands, a black-box algorithmic system called SyRI was used to detect welfare fraud. The system was found to have severe racial bias and was ineffective at detecting fraud …

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