Calls for audits to expose and mitigate harms related to algorithmic decision systems are proliferating and audit provisions are coming into force, notably in the EU’s Digital Services Act. In response to these growing concerns, research organizations working on technology accountability have called for ethics and/or human rights auditing of algorithms, and the artificial intelligence (AI) audit industry is rapidly developing. Algorithmic audits are a way to increase accountability for social media companies and to improve the governance of AI systems more generally. Read more here.
Source: GMF