Re: Automated Decision Systems, NYC report

 From my perspective, here are the key passages from the article:

    They even had model cards, which provide performance data, an
    explanation of intended use, and details on training and evaluation
    data, for dozens of different systems, all of which they kept to
    themselves. This is the sad reality of city politics. The City
    Council passed the task force into law to hold the administration
    accountable for its secretive use of algorithms, but that was the
    last thing the administration wanted.

The same has seemed to be true with respect to section 10 
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-machine-readable-government-owen-ambur/> 
of the GPRA Modernization Act at the U.S. federal level. Congress passed 
the law and President Obama signed it in January 2011 but nobody 
apparently really cared to know how well or poorly agencies are actually 
accomplishing their objectives.  I wouldn't necessarily suggest that we 
start rioting about it but a bit of righteous indignation -- accompanied 
by news media coverage and questioning of elected officials -- might be 
in order.

On the other hand, since OMB has indicated its intention to begin 
piloting implementation 
<http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/A11-240wStyle.xml#_aada4d70-a90a-11e9-a082-d69e4d1a686a> 
of that provision of law with a few agencies this year, there is cause 
for hope.  Indeed, hope springs eternal but we should do more than 
merely hope public officials start living up to their responsibilities.  
If they fail to do so honestly and forthrightly themselves, let's hold 
them accountable by reporting their performance for them -- in an open, 
standard, machine-readable format so that AI be applied to help us be 
less ignorant about our own civic responsibilities.  More inherently 
biased narrative reporting is not what is required. More actual 
performance data is.

See http://aboutthem.info/ & 
http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/UC4SwStyle.xml#_654e441c-0969-11e6-97e7-059645c7ae33 


Owen

On 11/27/2019 12:53 AM, Paola Di Maio wrote:
>
> Decision support systems are currently widely in use . I was just 
> writing about this, when came across an article, which  summarises 
> many of the challenges related to AI KR. Makes an interesting read.
>
> story
> https://www.fastcompany.com/90436012/the-first-effort-to-regulate-ai-was-a-spectacular-failure 
>
>
> report referenced in the story
> https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/adstaskforce/downloads/pdf/ADS-Report-11192019.pdf 
>