The AutAD project
This is the official website of the Project “The Dark Side of Algorithms under the Comparative Lens: Automated Administrative Decisions between Efficiency and Due Process – AutAD”.
The project is funded by the Italian Ministry of University and the European Union NextGenerationEU
PRIN Project n. E53D23006810006
AutAD
The project focus
The Project focuses on Automated Administrative Decisions (AutAD), i.e. decisions made by public authorities using algorithms, including artificial intelligence.
(AutAD) are increasingly being used in many legal systems, and we are investigating how they are regulated and which requirements an algorithm should have in order to be legitimately used by a public authority.
The comparative analysis aims to understand the problems generated by the use of algorithms by public bodies in different legal systems (maybe they are the same, or maybe not) and to check which solutions are available to guarantee individual procedural rights in automated administrative decisions (again, the solutions may be similar too or reveal differences, deriving from tradition or policy preferences).
In traditional administrative decisions, public authorities had to comply with well-established principles
Transparency
The obligation for public authorities to disclose how decisions are made
Right to be heard
The right of the affected parties to be heard before the decision is taken
The duty to give reasons
To provide clear and understandable justifications for their decisions
Judicial review
All administrative decisions must be subject to judicial review
How are those requirements shaped in an Automated Administrative Decision?
The project aims to investigate this issue from a comparative perspective.