Christchurch Call Initiative on Algorithmic Outcomes 22 September 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand, the USA, Twitter, and Microsoft are investing in an initiative under the banner of the Christchurch Call that will support the creation of new technology to understand the impacts of algorithms on people’s online experiences. Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms play a growing role in our everyday lives, including in how we organise information, and experience the internet. A majority of the content we encounter and view online is curated by algorithms in some form. Through the Christchurch Call to Action, we have committed to work together to better understand the impacts that algorithms and other processes may have on terrorist and violent extremist content. Leaders and the Call Community regard this algorithmic work as a top priority.
In order to study those impacts, we have to overcome challenges around: how to protect user privacy and proprietary information how to investigate impacts holistically across society and how to achieve reproducibility, affordability, and scale for independent researchers.
Working with an open-source non-profit organisation called OpenMined, the Algorithms Initiative will develop and test ground-breaking privacy-enhancing software infrastructure to address those challenges and help us move forward work under the Call.
