Date:
Location:
The workshop will address the human rights implications of the use of algorithms in decision-making, discuss the case for a right to human decision-making and consider if and when a fully automated decision would be permissible or even desirable.
Read Here the Workshop's Summary
Agenda
09:30-10:00 – Registration
10:00-10:15 – Introduction
Lorna McGregor, University of Essex
Yuval Shany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10:15-11:15 – Session 1: Frameworks for Accountability
Lorna McGregor, University of Essex – International Human Rights Law as a Framework for Algorithmic Accountability
11:15-11:30 – Coffee break
11:30-12:45 – Session 2: Issues in Criminal Justice
Dafna Dror, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Dehumanization of Judicial Decision-Making
Alon Harel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Machine-Governed Systems: Implications for Criminal Law
12:45-13:30 – Lunch
13:30-14:30 – Session 3: Human Agency and Democracy
Helmut Aust, Freie Universität Berlin – Undermining Human Agency and Democratic Infrastructures
14:30-14:45 – Coffee break
14:45-15:45 – Session 4: Broad Application for Other Contexts
This session will pull together the specific contexts raised in earlier sessions, and discuss whether the conclusions can be generalised and applied more widely
15:45-16:00 – Closing Remarks
Summary of key takeaways and identification of next steps
Reading Materials
- International Human Rights Law as a Framework for Algorithmic Accountability – Lorna McGregor, Daragh Murray, Vivian Ng
- Undermining Human Agency and Democratic Infrastructures? The Algorithmic Challenge to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Helmut Aust
- Dehumanization of Judicial Decision-Making – Dafna Dror
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Putting Human Rights at the Heart of the Design, Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence – The HRBDT Project