Enabling Technology Announcement: Algorithms In Decision Making - Commons Select Committee Report

Anyone who attended the December 2017 Workshop on "Data Driven Decision Making" couldn't have failed to be impressed by the presentation given by Dr Stephanie Mathisen, who spoke about the dangers of unregulated algorithms in the public sector that may influence decisions that could affect any of us. But whether you attended or not, I highly recommend reading the recently published report by the House of Commons Science & technology Select Committee.   The report acknowledges the role that Stephanie played in bringing these issues to the attention of Government: "The Report responds to a request for an inquiry into algorithms suggested to the previous Committee's 'My Science Inquiry' by Dr Stephanie Mathisen. She raised the question of "the extent to which algorithms can exacerbate or reduce biases" as well as "the need for decisions made by algorithms to be challenged, understood and regulated".