The Problem of Many Heads: Fragmented Accountability in Multi Agency Public Safety

  • Panel
  • Class Room
  • Friday 23.05 — 11:50 - 13:05
  • Academic 2
  • Business 1
  • Policy 3
Public safety is inherently a multi-agency phenomenon. The arrangement of public safety is often framed as a balancing act between implementing controls on the one hand, to promote freedoms and well-being on the other. Data and AI-'solutions' are often proposed as tools, albeit mostly for the side of the controls. The ELSA Lab-project AI-MAPS (NL), studies multi-agency public safety by engaging with a very wide range of stakeholders in use cases a.o. around social 'disorder' and public 'nuisances' in neighbourhoods. In this panel, we aim to conceptualize and address inherent fragmentation of accountability around public safety arrangements that include technologies, highlighting different narratives around safety, roles, objectives and responsibilities.

Questions to be answered

  1. How to conceptualize (multi-agency) public safety in neighborhoods,?
  2. What connections and disconnections arise around technological mediation in public safety and who and what are impacted?
  3. In particular: what fragmentations around accountability arise around data sharing and the private development and deployment of technology? / In an entangled public-private (technology) landscape, what are the effects of fragmentized responsibilities and accountability?
  4. How to avoid "the world [from] watching" via data gathering and technology in neighbourbood safety: what role does AI-technology play in fragmenting accountability and agency in public safety?

Moderator

Nanou van Iersel

Erasmus Law School + eLaw Leiden - Netherlands

Nanou van Iersel is a PhD researcher working on the intersections of law, ethics and digital technologies. With a background in philosophy of technology, her current research examines accountability networks in socio-technical contexts, particularly focusing on the (anticipated) impact(s) of AI on public safety. Her previous work has explored migration and border technologies, as well as the value of artistic practices in (scientific) knowledge production and dissemination.

Speaker

Marlon Kruizinga

Erasmus Law School + eLaw Leiden - Netherlands

Researching the ethical aspects of artificial intelligence in public safety, I have a background in philosophy of technology, normative philosophy, absurdism and critical theory. My interest lies in the ways that artificial intelligence and its ethical dilemma’s confronts us with the uncertainties and infirmities of our conventional ethical frameworks, and in how theories of absurdism, deliberative democracy, and justice could help us overcome these challenges in order to nevertheless take responsible steps into our collective future.

Speaker

Tundé Adefioye

St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp - Belgium

Tundé Adefioye is a Nigerian-American performing art dramaturg, writer and lecturer based in Belgium. Tundé co-founded the youth platform Urban Woorden in Leuven (BG) and has co-organized international Summer Schools/camps for young people Braver Spaces Antwerp. Together with friends and colleagues of #APostWorkCollective, Tundé facilitated gatherings around play and post-work to explore what a post-work future could look like for racialized folks in Europe. He continues to reflect on this post-work potential while trying to work out what he terms wildin' out theory; a concept borrowed from Jack Habelstam, Tavia Nyong'o and Sakiya in Palestine.

Speaker

Max Gahntz

Mozilla Foundation - Germany

Maximilian Gahntz (he/him) is the Mozilla Foundation's AI Policy Lead, working on questions around the regulation and governance of AI around the world. Previously, he has also led work around data governance and platform accountability. Before he joined Mozilla, he was a fellow of the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs, working on the EU's AI Act at the European Commission.