Our 4-step audit methodology
Step 1 – Identifying an issue
Identifying a concrete ethical issue in a real algorithm or data-analysis tool
Step 2 – Problem statement
Description of ethical issue, legal aspects, statistical methodology and hearing stakeholders and affected groups
Step 3 – Advice commission
Deliberative conversation on ethical issue by diverse and inclusive advice commission
Step 4 – Public advice
Advice of commission is published together with problem statement on our website. Publicly sharing the problem statement and normative advice is called algoprudence
Guidelines for convening a normative advice commission
Over the years, we have developed our own deliberative audit methodology. Algorithm Audit’s guidelines for convening a normative advice commission can be consulted in the below document. Get in touch to share feedback about these guidelines.
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