Rule of Law and Automation of Government Decision-Making
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- Rule of Law and Automation of Government Decision-Making
August
20
Tuesday
Speaker: | Professor George Williams AO, UNSW Law |
Moderator: | Professor David Tan, NUS Law |
Time: | 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm (SGT) |
Venue: | Moot Court, NUS Law |
Type of Participation: | Open To Public |
Description
According to Dean Williams, governments around the world are deploying automation tools in making decisions that affect rights and entitlements. The interests affected are very broad, ranging from time spent in detention to the receipt of social security benefits. Drawing on examples from the United States, Australia, Sweden and the People’s Republic of China, the talk focused on the impact on rule of law values of automation using: (1) pre-programmed rules (for example, expert systems); and (2) predictive inferencing whereby rules are derived from historic data (such by applying supervised machine learning). It explored the tension between the rule of law and rapid technological change and concludes with observations on how the automation of government decision-making can both enhance and detract from rule of law values such as due process rights.
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CPD Points
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Practice Area: Contemporary Issues in Legal Practice
Training Category: General