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Human discretion, validation and contestation routes that determine responsibility when automated systems err.
MIT Technology Review's 15-month investigation into US border surveillance puts the failure downstream of the cameras, at the step where a detection was supposed to turn into an agent arriving.
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AWS has made its AI hiring service generally available in two US regions. The rubric and the evidence trail are the parts an HR team can audit, and the adaptive questioning is the part it will have to explain.
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Kirk Ludwig's paper in Synthese treats a company's beliefs as a pattern of commitments made by people in official roles, and it lands negligence on whoever held the duty to check the facts before the company acted.
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Clearview says InquiryIQ is a prototype no police user has ever touched, but WIRED found its interface text sitting in files the login page hands to any visitor, and that text is now the thing procurement has to ask about.
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Researchers report that X's For You algorithm promotes value-incongruent posts because replies signal disagreement, and that the mismatch is over four times larger for Democrats.
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Malawi's 2016 drought policy failed not because the automation broke but because the crop model was fitted to a maize variety farmers had abandoned. The check that would have caught it ran after the season.
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A University of Toronto team read the whole inventory. It documents adoption, back-office use and vendor dependence, but not who exercises judgment when a system gets something wrong.
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