Bridging the Dutch and European Digital Sovereignty gap

Now is the time for Europe to be digitally sovereign,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said this in a joint letter1 because: • 92% of data from the West is hosted in the US and only 4% is stored in Europe.2 • The core of the...

From AI ethics principles to data science practice: a reflection and a gap analysis based on recent frameworks and practical experience

In the field of AI ethics, after the introduction of ethical frameworks and the evaluation thereof, we seem to have arrived at a third wave in which the operationalisation of ethics is central. Operationalisation is required, since ethics frameworks are often not suited to be used by data scientists in the development of AI-based services or...

Op zoek naar de mens in AI. Betrek de burger en experimenteer op verantwoorde wijze1

Kunstmatige intelligentie (‘artificial intelligence’, AI) heeft de afgelopen jaren tot vele innovaties geleid. Daarom denken ook overheidsorganisaties na over hoe zij AI kunnen gebruiken voor maatschappelijke vraagstukken of het uitvoeren van overheidstaken. Zo kan AI worden ingezet voor algoritmische besluitvorming. Aan deze toepassing van AI...

AI: In search of the human dimension. Involve citizens and experiment responsibly

Artificial intelligence, or AI, has resulted in many innovations in recent years, prompting government organisations to consider how they too can use AI to address social issues or to improve their performance. AI can, for example, be used in algorithmic decision-making. There are also drawbacks to using AI in this way, however, one being the...