Public Talk
You can’t automate accountability

AlgorithmWatch

Fri, 31.01.2020
2:00 PM - 17:00 Goethe-Institut Namibia

In the age of „artificial intelligence“, automated-decision-making is becoming more prevalent through automated border control and disinformation („fake news“), which are one side of the medal. Helpful development in the health sector, good governance through automation and prejudice-free application processes for jobs are examples of the other side.
 
This talk by Lorenz Matzat, co-founder of AlgorithmWatch, gives an overview of the discourse on the ethical questions concerning the automation of former human tasks: Why is it not possible to hold an algorithm accountable? And what role has civil society in all of this?