Anti-Bias Toolkit Offers Government a Closer Look at Automated Decision-Making

Government Technology: A new algorithm toolkit could help local government guarantee that their automated decision-making processes are free of bias.

The Ethics & Algorithm Toolkit is the product of a collaboration between the Center for Government Excellence (GovEx), San Francisco’s DataSF program, the Civic Analytics Network, and Data Community DC, which announced the effort recently in a press release. The toolkit is specifically aimed at ensuring fairness within algorithms as they pertain to the criminal justice system, higher education processes, social media networks and other areas of governmental responsibility.

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