AIMLab’s core activity will be developing impact assessment methods to hold those who built the algorithms accountable for harm. “Automated decisions impacting us in ways that are too often rendered invisible,” says Jacob Metcalf, one of the lab’s directors. “The people for whom these systems are potentially the most harmful — those who are historically vulnerable […] and often already subject to multiple forms of arbitrary exclusion, coercion, and surveillance — have had the least power to shape them.”

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