DIGSUM's Digital Law research group has received funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR) for the project HYDE – Human agency and the rule of law in semi-automated decision-making systems.
The project will focus on legal aspects of the increased use of semi-automated decision-making in areas affecting fundamental rights, such as within law-enforcement, social welfare and online content moderation. The outcomes of the project will provide guidance both to how hybrid decision-making could be regulated to better serve fundamental rule of law values, and how such hybrid systems can better be implemented to not interfere with legal rules and principles.
The four-year project is headed by Markus Naarttijärvi, associate professor at the department of law, joined by Therese Enarsson, associate professor and Lena Enqvist, assistant professor at the department of law, and Daniel Nylén, associate professor at the department of informatics.
– This grant would not have been possible without the excellent cross-disciplinary environment of DIGSUM, both in making connections possible and inspiring new research questions and frameworks, says Markus Naarttijärvi.
The project group is active within the DIGSUM research group on AI and society, where they will join other projects looking into societal consequences of AI and automation.
– We need strong social science research into the implications of AI technologies, and we hope our project will be a contribution to this, says Markus Naarttijärvi.