• This chapter discusses the narrated and imagined futures of introducing artificial intelligence to European public sector services. The case is made that potential long-term disruption of democratic public values is looming due to the private entities’ involvement in the automation process. Through a narrative study, I analyse eight central EU policy documents and five Member States’ national AI strategies to argue that they construct a vision of private-interests-driven AI uptake that insuffici…Read more
  • The Danger of Citizen Domination through Algorithmic Decision-Making in the Public Sector (edited book)
    Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. 2022.
    Applying for and gaining welfare benefits from the government is a different practice than a decade ago. Digital technologies, including emerging ones such as artificial intelligence and big data are increasingly popular in the public services sector. One such instance is a pilot project employing citizen profiling through artificial intelligence to implement a more efficient welfare policy in The Hague. The 'Bijstand' (prim. trans. 'Assistance') project relies on the use of machine learning to …Read more
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    Towards a Taxonomy of AI Risks in the Health Domain
    with Delaram Golpayegani, Joshua Hovsha, Leon Rossmaier, and Rana Saniei
    2022 Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Ai (Transai). 2022.
    The adoption of AI in the health sector has its share of benefits and harms to various stakeholder groups and entities. There are critical risks involved in using AI systems in the health domain; risks that can have severe, irreversible, and life-changing impacts on people’s lives. With the development of innovative AI-based applications in the medical and healthcare sectors, new types of risks emerge. To benefit from novel AI applications in this domain, the risks need to be managed in order to…Read more
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    Ethics and governance in the digital age
    European View 20 (2): 175-181. 2021.
    This article argues that ethics need not be toothless or side-lined in the technology governance debates. Rather, moral evaluation is necessary, even when legal compliance is already possible. Moral evaluation supplies answer not only to what is legal or illegal but also to what is good and better for society. The article first defends a pragmatist ethics approach to uncovering the inevitability of values and norms embedded in digital technologies and related to their design and use. It then mak…Read more