Rejecting Discriminatory Algorithms: Is Unbiased AI Possible?
6th Assembly of the Democratic Digital Commons Project
Online | 30 September | 18h00–20h30 CEST
AI systems are already shaping decisions about our lives: who gets an interview, who receives welfare, who is flagged as “high risk,” what we see online, and who gets access to public space. From AI-powered job interviews to algorithmic welfare systems and biased chatbots, technologies presented as neutral can reproduce, and intensify, existing inequalities.
This assembly is part of European Alternatives‘ Democratic Digital Commons (DDC) project, which explores how citizens can collectively reclaim the governance and future of digital technologies and infrastructures. Each assembly in the series takes on a different facet of AI and new technologies. This session turns to algorithms directly, asking who gets to design the systems that increasingly govern us, and what it would mean to design them differently.
The assembly asks how algorithms actually work, where algorithmic bias comes from, and whether technologies can be built that do not reproduce the systems of power already shaping our world.
A+ Alliance will present concrete projects and prototypes from across the network, showing how feminist and anti-discriminatory principles have been translated into working models. The presentation will be followed by a short Q&A and breakout sessions, where participants can carry these ideas into their own thinking on what alternative algorithmic systems could look like.