Part M: Susan Carew Submission to OAIC (FOI): Automation, Transparency and Accountability

Automation: There is another quite different area where laws intended to achieve transparency and accountability are being challenged. This is in the area of automated decision-making involving some form of artificial intelligence or machine learning. As these tools become more sophisticated, it becomes more difficult (or even impossible) to explain how a particular decision was reached in a particular instance. As current FOI laws create a legally enforceable right to access documents, they are unlikely to be fully effective in allowing a person to obtain a meaningful insight into how automated decisions have been arrived at. This is further complicated by the fact that and are unlikely to allow public sector organisations access to private sector developers understandably guard their intellectual property jealously algorithms and source code in a way that would allow those organisations to give any meaningful explanation of outcomes to citizens.

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