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Autonomous Systems as Legal Agents: Directly by the Recognition of Personhood or Indirectly by the Alchemy of Algorithmic Entities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The clinical manifestations of platelet dense (δ) granule defects are easy bruising, as well as epistaxis and bleeding after delivery, tooth extractions and surgical procedures.
Powell, Dalton
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Assessing Creditworthiness in the Age of Big Data

open access: yesJournal of Extreme Anthropology, 2021
The purpose of this article is twofold: first, we show how algorithms have become increasingly central to financial credit scoring; second, we draw on this to further develop the anthropological study of algorithmic governance.
Pernille Hohnen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A guideline for understanding and measuring algorithmic governance in everyday life

open access: yesInternet Policy Review, 2019
Algorithmic governance affects individuals’ reality construction and consequently social order in societies. Vague concepts of algorithmic governance and the lack of comprehensive empirical insights into this kind of institutional steering by software ...
Michael Latzer, Noemi Festic
doaj   +1 more source

From opt-in to obligation? : Examining the regulation of globally operating tech companies through alternative regulatory instruments from a material and territorial viewpoint [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Modern society’s ever-increasing reliance on technology raises complex legal challenges. In the search for an efficient and effective regulatory response, more and more authorities – in particular the European Union – are relying on alternative ...
Vander Maelen, Carl
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Bots in Wikipedia: Unfolding their duties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The success of crowdsourcing systems such as Wikipedia relies on people participating in these systems. However, in this research we reveal to what extent human and machine intelligence is combined to carry out semi-automatic workflows of complex tasks ...
Müller-Birn, Claudia
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Introduction: the Governance of Algorithms

open access: yesPhilosophy & Technology, 2018
In our information societies, tasks and decisions are increasingly outsourced to automated systems, machines, and artificial agents that mediate human relationships, by taking decisions and acting on the basis of algorithms. This raises a critical issue: how are algorithmic procedures and applications to be appraised and governed?
D’Agostino, Marcello, Durante, Massimo
openaire   +1 more source

Disenchanting Trust: Instrumental Reason, Algorithmic Governance, and China’s Emerging Social Credit System

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2021
Digital technologies have provided governments across the world with new tools of political and social control. The development of algorithmic governance in China is particularly alarming, where plans have been released to develop a digital Social Credit
Sheng Zou
doaj   +1 more source

Algorithms, Governance, and Governmentality [PDF]

open access: yesScience, Technology, & Human Values, 2015
Algorithms, or rather algorithmic actions, are seen as problematic because they are inscrutable, automatic, and subsumed in the flow of daily practices. Yet, they are also seen to be playing an important role in organizing opportunities, enacting certain categories, and doing what David Lyon calls “social sorting.” Thus, there is a general concern ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Liable, but Not in Control? Ensuring Meaningful Human Agency in Automated Decision-Making Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Automated decision making is becoming the norm across large parts of society, which raises interesting liability challenges when human control over technical systems becomes increasingly limited.
Wagner, Ben
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Algorithmic Fairness from a Non-ideal Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Inspired by recent breakthroughs in predictive modeling, practitioners in both industry and government have turned to machine learning with hopes of operationalizing predictions to drive automated decisions.
Dwork Cynthia   +5 more
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