Media release

Discrimination through AI hiring tools: Research project presents new solutions

A major European research project is releasing new tools, approaches, and concrete recommendations aimed at tackling discrimination in job recruiting caused by AI hiring tools. 

Report algorithmic discrimination!

When we apply for credit, apartments, or jobs online, companies increasingly use automated systems to process our data and make decisions that impact our daily lives. The problem: Such systems are not neutral and can reproduce inequalities and assumptions about people that already exist in society. What can we do to ensure that the use of non-transparent automated systems does not lead to people being disadvantaged? We need to make algorithmic discrimination visible, and you can help us with it!

Publication

Using AI responsibly: Our Impact Assessment Tool

Algorithmic and AI-based systems can have ethically relevant effects on people. Those who use them therefore bear a special responsibility. The impact assessment tool developed by AlgorithmWatch supports and empowers users to fulfill this responsibility.

Explainer

Fighting the Power Deficiency: The AI Energy Crisis

Is AI contributing to solving the climate crisis or to making it worse? Either way, the increase in AI applications goes hand in hand with the need for additional data centers, for which energy resources are currently lacking.

Position Paper

Which AI do we want? Framework conditions for algorithms & artificial intelligence

The Swiss Federal Council is introducing regulation around AI. Below, we summarize what the Federal Council and Parliament should consider from the perspective of fundamental rights, democracy, and sustainability.

Atlas of Automation

To detect benefit fraud, measure work performance, predict a person's creditworthiness or show us personalised content online - algorithms and so-called "artificial intelligence" are shaping our everyday lives today. Where, by whom and for what purpose these algorithmic systems are used, however, is largely a black box. With the Atlas of Automation, AlgorithmWatch CH now sheds light on the darkness.