Publications

Impact assessments, seals of quality for the origin and quality of data, creating class-action rights for federal anti-discrimination agencies, establishing an agency with algorithmic oversight – there are several ways to go about making sure that algorithmic systems are...

Those who commission, design and use algorithmic systems – algorithmists – have a responsibility to meet these demands. But what might compel them to fulfill their responsibility? We believe that binding professional ethics can prove effective in this regard.

Die Personen, die algorithmische Systeme beauftragen, gestalten und einsetzen – die „Algorithmiker:innen“ –, stehen in der Verantwortung, diese Anforderungen umzusetzen. Doch warum sollten sie dieser Verantwortung nachkommen? Wir glauben, eine verbindliche Professionsethik...

What should algorithms be allowed to do and what not? What standards of quality should they be held to? For what purposes may they be used? These are relevant questions for all of us as individuals. As a society, we need to achieve a consensus in our response to these...

Algorithmische Systeme sind längst Teil unseres Alltags und betreffen jeden von uns. Doch was wissen und denken eigentlich die Menschen in Deutschland über Algorithmen? Dieser Frage sind wir in einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsbefragung nachgegangen. Die Ergebnisse machen...

Algorithmen bewerten Menschen und entscheiden über sie – etwa in Bewerbungsverfahren oder bei der Kreditvergabe. Bislang läuft dies noch fast unkontrolliert ab, was zu falschen Bewertungen oder gar Diskriminierungen führen kann.

Algorithmic decision-making (ADM) processes are influencing many people's ability to participate in the public discourse. Software, for example, personalizes online search results and the news stream in social networks.

Algorithms influence our lives not only on Facebook, but in many other areas of life as well. Algorithmic decision-making (ADM) processes are used, for example, to observe and evaluate how often break-ins occur in certain neighborhoods so the police can deploy their...

Processes of algorithmic decision-making (ADM) now evaluate people in many areas of life. ADM processes have been used for years to categorize people, without any real discussion of whether those processes are fair or how they can be explained, verified or corrected. One...