BACK
Amsterdam and Helsinki Launch World's First Open AI Registers
interestingengineering.com

Amsterdam and Helsinki Launch World's First Open AI Registers

The public registers are aimed at making the use of algorithms more transparent to the public.

International

Amsterdam and Helsinki have become the first cities in the world to launch AI registers that are available to the public and allow anyone to track how algorithms are being used in the municipalities.

The cities' governing bodies said that the move was made so as to ensure that AI used in public services is managed with the same transparency, responsibility, and security as other local government activities.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking an increasingly important role in our lives. This is something that is reflected in the emergence of campaigns such as Stop Killer Robots, and in the fact that companies such as Google are working to combat AI-developed fake news via their own algorithms.

Click to continue reading

Every day, whether we use public transport or use a government website, we are at the behest of algorithms programmed by the government to automate important functions of our daily lives.