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An Institutional View of Algorithmic Impact Assessments

Andrew D. Selbst · Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 35(1), 117–191 · 2021

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Author: Andrew D. Selbst
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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TheoryImpact 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.