Sonia Katyal in Fast Company on Automated Decision Making
Fast Company features Sonia Katyal's work in their reporting on Washington state's algorithmic accountability bill. The bill that is under consideration would establish guidelines for the procurement and use of automated decision systems in government “in order to protect consumers, improve transparency, and create more market predictability.” Currently, tools and technologies contracted by the government are not required to offer any real disclosures and claim that this information is proprietary.
From the article:
As Sonia Katyal, co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, argues in a new paper, intellectual property laws that protect government-purchased software should not outstrip civil rights concerns.
There are very real concerns around algorithmic bias that cannot be interrogated without greater transparency in these products.
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