Posts in Automating-Governance
AUTOMATING GOVERNANCE, GOVERNING AUTOMATION OVERVIEW

This sub-project is about the exercise of power through data and AI systems, and about how it can be rendered both just and legitimate. Among other themes, we explore how current practices of using data and AI to perform the functions of the administrative state fall short of existing standards of public law, we ask foundational questions about the nature of explanations, and the circumstances when they are morally called for, and we provide both policy advice and technical expertise in the development of just and legitimate data and AI systems.

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World Economic Forum Quantum Computing Governance

World Economic Forum's Quantum Computing Governance Principles programme brings together a global multi-stakeholder community of experts from across public sector, private sector, academia and civil society to formulate principles and create a broader ethical framework for responsible and purpose-driven design and adoption of quantum computing technologies to drive positive outcomes for society.

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Dark Patterns and the Legal Requirements of Consent Banners: An Interaction Criticism Perspective

User engagement with data privacy and security through consent banners has become a ubiquitous part of interacting with internet services. While previous work has addressed consent banners from either interaction design, legal, and ethics-focused perspectives, little research addresses the connections among multiple disciplinary approaches, including tensions and opportunities that transcend disciplinary boundaries. In this paper, we draw together perspectives and commentary from HCI, design, privacy and data protection, and legal research communities, using the language and strategies of "dark patterns" to perform an interaction criticism reading of three different types of consent banners. Our analysis builds upon designer, interface, user, and social context lenses to raise tensions and synergies that arise together in complex, contingent, and conflicting ways in the act of designing consent banners. We conclude with opportunities for transdisciplinary dialogue across legal, ethical, computer science, and interactive systems scholarship to translate matters of ethical concern into public policy.

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Upcoming Seminar Series: Alternative Data Governance // Alternative Data Economies

This four-part seminar series will explore alternative strategies for governing data and the digital economy. It is presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, in combination with the Humanising Machine Intelligence project at the Australian National University, and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Click through for more information.

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