How one Ontario city is blazing the trail for public sector AI use
However, London’s CHAI tool could easily expand to other municipalities.so that anyone can use the same system. It’s not proprietary. They’re not trying to sell it.”
Mat Daley, director of Information Technology and Services with the City of London, said CHAI can be used to predict heavy shelter use, which gives staff the opportunity to enhance “resource allocation and operations.” O’Gorman has described the development of CHAI as “respectable,” noting the developers chose to follow the guidelines of the General Data Protection Regulation , established by the European Union.
Furthermore, CHAI doesn’t make decisions, it provides information that caseworkers can use to make decisions.via CHAI pre-print, Github.com/Sept. 2020 “And as part of a review for an article by Reuters, two unaffiliated computer science experts and a privacy lawyer found thatHowever, even though several experts believe London’s approach to developing CHAI was responsible, O’Gorman notes that ultimately, the model is still one of surveillance.
“There’s forgotten thousands that do not use and will not use public shelter spaces or take their children to live on the street,” she explained. “You have to ask people, what was that profile based on and what is the quality of the data that went into arriving at that profile? Who’s being left out? Who’s missing?”
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