Amsterdam and Helsinki Launch Algorithm Registries To Bring Transparency To Public Deployments of AI

Amsterdam and Helsinki this week launched AI registries to detail how each city government uses algorithms to deliver services, some of the first major cities in the world to do so. From a report: An AI Register for each city was introduced in beta today as part of the Next Generation Internet Policy Summit, organized in part by the European Commission and the city of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam registry currently features a handful of algorithms, but it will be extended to include all algorithms following the collection of feedback at the virtual conference to lay out a European vision of the future of the internet, according to a city official. Each algorithm cited in the registry lists datasets used to train a model, a description of how an algorithm is used, how humans utilize the prediction, and how algorithms were assessed for potential bias or risks. The registry also provides citizens a way to give feedback on algorithms their local government uses and the name, city department, and contact information for the person responsible for the responsible deployment of a particular algorithm. A complete algorithmic registry can empower citizens and give them a way to evaluate, examine, or question governments' applications of AI.

Turing Registry

[UPi]

They CANNOT call this new body anything other than "The Turing Registry".

And the CANNOT call the enforcement arm [wikipedia.org] of this new body anything other than "The Turing Police."

It would be just wrong.

I continue to be amazed how William Gibson's novel, written on a typewriter in 1984, continues to come true page by page.

Define AI

[thegarbz]

Is this an attempt at actual intelligence or are we also including static algorithms simply trained through adversarial networks (also fits definition of AI since the algorithm is learned), or maybe it's a Hello World program coded by AI? Or better still just a marketing company using the term AI?