AI and automated decision-making technologies are increasingly being used in government, and due to their opaque nature, it’s vital that we bring more transparency to their workings. In this event, three researchers and civil society actors talk about how they have used Freedom of Information to do just that.

You’ll hear from Morgan Currie from the University of Edinburgh; Gabriel Geiger of Lighthouse Reports, and Jake Hurfurt from Big Brother Watch. Learn what concerns them about this new age of automated decision-making; the practical tips and techniques they’ve used to bring hidden algorithms to light; and what needs to change in our laws as a matter of urgency.

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More information

• Blog post, with links to the video and slides
• Morgan Currie’s research (with Alli Spring): Algorithmic Transparency in the UK
• Lighthouse Reports’ Suspicion Machines, as presented by Gabriel Geiger
• Big Brother Watch’s report on the ‘error-riddled AI tool to be used by the Home Office’.
• Find out more about the Access to Information Network

Transcript

Louise Crow 0:03 Hello, everyone, welcome. I’m Louise Crow, Chief Executive mySociety.

Louise Crow 0:08 Thank you for joining us for this one hour session on how Access to Information can help us understand AI decision making in government. (more…)