Congo, migration and technology
AI and digital rights: technology for everyone
From biometric surveillance to discriminatory algorithms, Carla kept asking what technology means for vulnerable groups, and for the costs elsewhere in the world. As early as 2022 she asked for an expert meeting on digital rights.
What Carla did
Committee
On the Digital City Agenda, Carla asked for an expert meeting on the digital rights of vulnerable groups and people in poverty.
Motion
Motion 691 (Broersen, Krom and Kabamba): a vision for AI in the Amsterdam labour market. Carried unanimously.
Committee
She raised concerns about facial recognition and asked that the council have a say in how data are stored.
Committee
On Amsterdam’s AI vision: human-centred, trustworthy and fair, with attention to discrimination and algorithmic bias.
Council
On algorithms: the risks of bias are not abstract but affect people. Motion 305 against algorithmic risk profiling adopted.
Council
On Amsterdam as a technology capital, she noted the missing perspective of the Global South.