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Humane Intelligence

Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.

USA

Tracking Local Law 144 bias audits

ACLU's crowd-sourced public tracker of bias audits of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) released by employers related to NYC's Local Law 144.

New York City
2023
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Eticas Foundation

Community-led AI Audits: Making AI Systems Fair & Accountable

New York City
CTFG partners

The Observatory of Algorithms with Social Impact (OASI)

The OASI Register compiles information about algorithms with the aim of increasing public awareness and providing the necessary knowledge for an informed public conversation, and of making possible for experts and the public to search and analyse the use and social impact of algorithmic systems across the world.

2021

ForHumanity

To examine and analyze the downside risks associated with the ubiquitous advance of AI & Automation, to engage in risk mitigation and ensure the optimal outcome… ForHumanity.

New York, USA

Automating (In)Justice: An Adversarial Audit of RisCanvi

Eticas Foundation's adversarial audit of an AI-powered criminal justice tool, RisCanvi, that has been used in Catalonia since 2009 finds it "does not meet the required standards of reliability and fairness."

Catalonia (Spain)
criminal justice, recidivism, reports

MLCommons AI Safety

The MLCommons AI Safety working group is composed of a global consortium of industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, and civil society experts committed to building a harmonized approach to AI safety.

International Association of Algorithmic Auditors (IAAA)

The IAAA is a community of practice that aims to advance and organise the algorithmic auditing profession, promote AI auditing standards, certify best practices and contribute to the emergence of Responsible AI.

2024

AI Forensics

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.

Italy
2021