Algorithmic Impact Assessments and Accountability: The Co-construction of Impacts
Jacob Metcalf,Emanuel Moss,Elizabeth Anne Watkins,Ranjit Singh,Madeleine Clare Elish — Algorithmic Impact Assessments and Accountability: The Co-construction of Impacts (2021)Jacob Metcalf; Emanuel Moss; Elizabeth Anne Watkins; Ranjit Singh; Madeleine Clare Elish · 2021 · Article · abstractTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0666 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Algorithmic impact assessment · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Impact assessments do not simply discover impacts: impacts are co-constructed in accountability relationships, and assessments risk producing organisationally convenient metrics distant from people's actual harms; because assessors depend on information that only system developers hold, regimes relying on their good faith can be undermined by their incentives.”
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2An Institutional View of Algorithmic Impact Assessments
Andrew D. Selbst — An Institutional View of Algorithmic Impact Assessments (2021)Andrew D. Selbst · 2021 · Article · abstractEvidence that contradicts
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Algorithmic Impact Assessments: A Practical Framework for Public Agency Accountability
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