Are #Algorithmic Impact Assessments all they're cracked up to be?

In the latest episode of our Privacy on the Ground podcast AI Governance Tools series @katekaye.bsky.social talks with lawyer Will Tao about how he uses AIAs from Canada's immigration agency, and ways they could improve.

Dig wonky talks about AI governance tools & metrics & how governments implement them? Listen to our latest podcast episode featuring a deep dive talk w Mariana German about assessing Chile's health agency medical claims model:
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The first of two Privacy on the Ground podcast episodes on use of an AI Governance Tool to assess a medical claims AI model by Chile's health and social security agency is out tomorrow!

Check out the intro to this series featuring WPF founder/exec dir Pam Dixon!
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The evolution of AI Governance Tools, for your weekend podcast listening:

Hear @worldprivacyforum.bsky.social's founder & exec dir, Pam Dixon and @katekaye.bsky.social discuss AI Governance Tools & how they've evolved. AND hear from people in Chile & Canada featured in our forthcoming pod series!

AI governance is wonky, dense and often so theoretical it is difficult to understand its connections to the real world. But @worldprivacyforum.bsky.social's latest series of our Privacy on the Ground podcast on AI governance tools changes all that. Give a listen and subscribe!

Access to "de-identified" genomic data is not new. And for years, @worldprivacyforum.bsky.social has highlighted the LIMITS of "DE-IDENTIFICATION" when using GENOMIC DATA in conjunction with today's powerful ML/deep learning data processing. www.worldprivacyforum.org/2022/03/wpf-...

World Privacy Forum's comments on the US AI Action Plan are about continuing important work at NIST, ensuring the US is part of AI Safety Institute discussions happening around the world, and about evaluating metrology used in AI governance tools. www.worldprivacyforum.org/2025/03/wpf-...

What is emotion recognition & how can policymakers better understand its impacts? Hear @naz-andalibi.bsky.social discuss her extensive research on this algorithmic/AI-based tech in the latest Privacy on the Ground!

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My talk with @justinhendrix.bsky.social about assessing AI governance tools was a top @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast of 2024! The work forms a basis for ongoing work at @worldprivacyforum.bsky.social
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Generative AI is "kind of dumbing down our language," Te Reo Māori language and culture educator Te Mihinga Komene explains in the latest episode of @worldprivacyforum.bsky.social's Privacy on the Ground podcast.

"This is catching my Spidey senses." - Alex Soto, 1st Native dir of Labriola Indian Data Center (& hip-hop MC) on what it's like to find inappropriate Indigenous info collected thru extractive data gathering. Listen in WPF's latest Privacy on the Ground episode!
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Listen now to Dr. Krystal Tsosie on the impacts of AI and data in the cloud on Indigenous genetic and bioethics research, and why she pushes for Indigenous scientists to also be advocates - on WPF's new Privacy on the Ground podcast! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Looking for AI legislation? You may miss practical AI Governance Tools govts are implementing around the world, like CA's new public sector AI procurement guidelines.
WPF's Risky Analysis report features something similar from Chile. (Here's our report: www.worldprivacyforum.org/2023/12/new-...)

US laws addressing financial data privacy don't cover digital wallets, open banking or AI. In comments to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, WPF asked for a study to measure the impact of a key but limited law affecting financial privacy, Gramm-Leach Bliley Act -- including on poor people.

What would a US identity system w/ identity-specific regs & dedicated identity authorities look like? WPF addressed this in relation to personal financial data rights in recent comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. www.worldprivacyforum.org/2024/01/wpf-...

Give a listen to WPF's @katekaye.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social pod! She and @justinhendrix.bsky.social discuss tools that governments use today to implement AI governance, the problems in tools revealed by our research & the need to assess AI gov tools to ensure they align with policy!

One of the many, many concepts we discuss in our upcoming report is Measurement Modeling as it relates to AI governance. Discussed this with @azjacobs.bsky.social earlier this year.

Editing a giant report we at @worldprivacyforum.bsky.social really hope will make some waves in relation to AI governance. Worthy work for a Sunday.