Blog | Henry Fraser

Jul 318 min read

Decoding Canada’s Directive on Automated Decision-Making

A blueprint for AI guardrails? Jacqueline McIlroy, Sara Luck and Henry Fraser CROSS POSTED FROM ADM+S BLOG As Australia considers the...

Feb 233 min read

How to ace law school

I've just finished teaching a law subject on privacy, law and AI governance over summer (here in Australia it's summer right now). It was...

Jun 28, 20239 min read

‘AI safety’ doesn’t make AI safe

AI alignment may currently be out of reach, but basic human decency is not A Belgian man took his own life in March this year after...

Oct 11, 20215 min read

Biases about bias

Picture a machine learning system that relies on crowdsourced data labelers to help rank music recommendations. Is the system vulnerable...

May 21, 20216 min read

Pluralism and regulatory overlap

I'm thinking about the concept of overlap in the governance of AI and automated decision-making (ADM). I've been reading Europe's new...

May 10, 20216 min read

Regulating AI with dynamic definitions

A basic problem in the regulation of technology, and especially of artificial intelligence is the problem of definition. There are many...

Apr 29, 20213 min read

Accountability as a value proposition

There is a fast-growing cottage industry of consultants and advisers who advise businesses on AI Ethics. Their value proposition is that...

Aug 18, 20205 min read

Does regulating AI do more harm than good?

Regulatory reform tends to proceed slowly and cautiously with many stages of consultation and refinement.

Aug 13, 20201 min read

AI threats to democracy

Today's post is going to be a little different. It's an experiment in 'lean' writing. I'm going to compile a taxonomy of threats to...