Regulating For an Equal AI: A New Role for Equality Bodies

The Report: “Regulating AI: The new role for equality bodies” highlights key challenges to equality and non-discrimination from increased digitisation and the use of Artificial Intelligence, and makes proposals for the future work of equality bodies. The report maps and identifies the equality implications of AI systems, and the nature, scope and approach of Equinet’s Members in the discussions on AI and algorithmic discrimination. It also provides practical guidance on identifying and assessing the equality-relevant consequences of AI and automated-decision making.

In the process of preparing this Report it became clear that there were, in essence, six key questions for equality bodies. These questions have been borne in mind in every stage in the preparation of this Report. The questions are:

• What tasks should equality bodies undertake to ensure that artificial intelligence, machine learning and automatic decision-making advance and do not hinder equality and non-discrimination?
• What capacity do equality bodies have for this?
• How can they be assisted to gain better capacity?
• Who or what are the other actors in this field with which equality bodies should be working?
• Does the current discourse on the ethical approach to AI support legal rights to equality?

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