More human involvement won't cure AI issues

28/01/2021 | IAPP

Concerns around AI and algorithms are growing as the technology becomes more pervasive in our daily lives. Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the current assumption is that the "cure" for flawed algorithmic decision-making is more human involvement; however, Assersson Head of Privacy and Data Protection Avishai Ostrin, CIPP/E, does not think that's the case. "We must discard the notion that more human involvement 'cures' algorithmic biases," Ostrin writes. "We must broaden the scope of the regulation to apply not only to decision-making algorithms but also to decision-aiding algorithms."

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