Foreword / The Hon Justice Duncan Kerr -- 1. iDecide: digital pathways to decision / The Hon Justice Melissa Perry -- 2. Fairness in automated decision making / Professor Matthew Groves -- 3. Evaluating automation: the need for greater transparency / Dr Darren O Donovan AO -- 4. Better decisions? Robodebt and the failings of merits review / Joel Townsend -- 5. Automated decision making and human rights: the right to an effective remedy / Dr Maria O Sullivan -- 6. Public law limits on automated courts / Dr Joe McIntyre & Dr Anna Olijnyk -- 7. Holding an automated government to account? The role if Parliamentary Committees / Dr Sarah Moulds -- 8. Outsourcing automation: locking the "Black Box" inside a safe / Dr Janina Boughey -- 9. Government procurement and project management for automated decision-making systems / Sarah Crossman & Rachel Dixon -- 10. Who oversees the governments automated decision-making? Modernising regulation and review of Australian automated decision making / Dr Marc Cheong & Dr Kobi Leins -- 11. Retaining the Citizen in the loop the role of the citizen in Digital Government / Katie Miller -- 12. Untapped opportunities for the use of AI in comparing legislation for National Reforms / Dr Guzyal Hill -- 13. Laws for machines and machine-made laws / Professor Lyria Bennett Moses, Dr Janina Boughey and Dr Lisa Burton Crawford.
Summary:
Australian governments are using technology to assist in the administration of the law and delivery of services to the community in a range of contexts, including tax, social security, immigration, health and national security. Use of automation by Australian governments has a mixed record of success. It allows governments to administer complex laws and deliver services more efficiently and accurately than humans could. However, recent experiences such as Robodebt have highlighted that automation carries risks for governments and citizens. This book explores the implications, challenges and opportunities that automating government functions presents for our system of public law. It asks whether the laws and institutions we have in place to ensure accountability and transparency in government are fit for purpose in an age of automation. The book brings together judges, senior public servants, practitioners, and law and technology academics to interrogate these issues and find solutions that are workable from legal, technology and policy perspectives. For readers new to the field, the book provides an entry point, including explainers on technology concepts commonly found in government automation. For readers familiar with developments in government automation, the book provides an opportunity to move beyond asking questions to exploring how elements of the public law system both those that are familiar, as well as those less studied can be adapted to preserve accountability and transparency in the digital age.
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