Projects - Automated Decision-making Systems (ADS)

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"Automated decision systems (ADS) gather and evaluate information about a situation, determine the need for a decision, identify or develop relevant alternative courses of action, select an action, and then apply the action as a solution." - Luanne Burns Chamberlain, Lauren Eisenberg Davis, Martin Stanley, & BrianGattoni in "Automated Decision Systems for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security"

Automated Decisionmaking Systems and other AI go so far as to make decisions at scale. These systems can have deep impacts on communities. For example, ""Computer algorithms have made eligibility decisions about almost all of the 92 million low-income people in the United States when they enroll in programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP." - AI and Government Workers: Use Cases in Public Administration. By Samantha Shorey for the Roosevelt Institute (2025)"

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The Inscrutable Code? The Deficient Scrutiny Problem of Automated Government

Oxford

This paper argues that automated decision-making in UK public administration lacks adequate scrutiny, and proposes regulatory safeguards through mandatory pre-deployment impact assessments and algorithmic auditing to strengthen accountability in Parliament and the courts.

Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS) establishes a standardised way for public sector organisations to publish information about how and why they are using algorithmic tools.

Suspicion Machines

Utrecht

Lighthouse Reports series reveals discrimination in welfare surveillance algorithms

AI and Government Workers: Use Cases in Public Administration

This report scans the landscape of AI use in the public sector at the state and local level, evaluating its benefits and harms through the examples of chatbots and automated tools that transcribe audio, summarize policies, and determine eligibility for benefits.