#5 Humane Conversations – Eerlijke Algoritmen with Sigrid van Hoek, Barteld Braaksma (CBS) and Charles Jeurgens (Faculty of Humanities, UvA)

“There is a strong societal call to ensure that AI-based algorithms are designed in a responsible way. In particular, bias and discrimination should be avoided whenever possible. Recently, CBS (Statistics Netherlands) has conducted some work in this area together with several partners. The goal was to support municipalities during different phases of a data science project to create trustworthy and fair algorithms. For example, a prototype Starters Kit for fair algorithms has been developed. In addition, special attention has been paid to proper documentation of algorithms and decisions based upon them. We will present some highlights from this work”