The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for making decisions in public affairs has
sparked a lively debate on the benefits and potential harms of self-learning technologies …

The alleged opacity of AI has become a major political issue over the past few years.
Opening the black box, so it is argued, is indispensable to identify encroachments on user …

We are sceptical of concerns over the opacity of algorithmic decision tools. While
transparency and explainability are certainly important desiderata in algorithmic …

While there is growing consensus that the analytical and cognitive tools of artificial
intelligence (AI) have the potential to transform government in positive ways, it is also clear …

Artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making (ADM) technologies are hidden
everywhere in today's modern society. They calculate credit scores, automatically update …

This conceptual paper addresses the issues of transparency as linked to artificial
intelligence (AI) from socio-legal and computer scientific perspectives. Firstly, we discuss the …

Computational artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are increasingly used to support decision
making by governments. Yet algorithms often remain opaque to the decision makers and …

Some recent developments in Artificial Intelligence—especially the use of machine learning
systems, trained on big data sets and deployed in socially significant and ethically weighty …

Governments look at explainable artificial intelligence's (XAI) potential to tackle the criticisms
of the opaqueness of algorithmic decision-making with AI. Although XAI is appealing as a …

This paper argues against the call to democratize artificial intelligence (AI). Several authors
demand to reap purported benefits that rest in direct and broad participation: In the …