Polity Atlas
TheorySource 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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Algorithmic Impact Assessments: A Practical Framework for Public Agency Accountability

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