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Significant technological advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics over the last two decades have enabled the widespread automation of decision-making in government in Western liberal democracies. However, automated government decision-making can have adverse effects upon vulnerable populations who are the intended recipients of government social programs, yet at the same time least able to address errors in government decision-making.

This talk presents preliminary findings from a comparative book project analysing legal challenges automated government decision-making in the US, UK and Australia.

Speaker: Dr Yee-Fui Ng, IALS Visiting Research Fellow

Discussant: Justice Richard Humphreys, Senior Associate IALS Fellow

Mr Justice Richard Humphreys is a judge of the High Court of Ireland.  His current assignment is as Judge in Charge of the Commercial Planning and Environmental List.  He is also a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.  Before his appointment to judicial office in 2015 he was a practising barrister and prior to that he worked in government and academia.  He holds a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin and has published widely on legal issues

Chair: Professor Susan Breau, Interim Director of Research Students and IALS Senior Associate Research Fellow