Human AI
and Society
About
Artificial Intelligence is poised to enter – and alter – almost all spheres of human life in the years and decades to come. From jobs, health care, education, to justice, AI will, more broadly, impact how we make collective decisions. Such prospects raise many legitimate concerns and questions over ethics and privacy, amongst others, but AI can be leveraged both as an inspiration and as an instrument to build more efficient and fairer human societies.
Publications
Human AI and Data Sharing
Our research in this area seeks to understand the risks and requirements of developing what we term “Human AI” systems, including by promoting ethical systems and standards for data sharing and use, and a healthy data culture within societies.
"Sharing is Caring: Four Key Requirements for Sustainable Private Data Sharing and Use for Public Good"
Emmanue Letouzé & Nuria Oliver, Nov. 2019.
Data-Pop Alliance in cooperation with the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications.
"Towards a Human Artificial Intelligence for Human Development"
Emmanuel Letouzé & Alex , Pentland, Dec. 2018.
ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries, Special Issue No.2.
"On the privacy conscientious use of mobile phone data"
De Montjoye, Y-A., Gambs, S., Blondel, V., Canright, G., de Cordes, N., Deletaille, S., Engø-Monsen, K., Garcia-Herranz, M., Kendall, J., Kerry, C., Krings, G., Letouzé, E., Luengo-Oroz, M., Oliver, N., Rocher, L., Rutherford, A., Smoreda, Z., Steele, J., Wetter, E., Pentland, A., & Bengtsson, L., Dec. 2018.
Scientific Data Journal, Volumen 5.
Letouzé, E., Nov. 2018.
Note au Bureau Pays du PNUD Togo.
"Panorama setorial da Internet"
Emmanuel Letouzé, May 2018 (Available in Portugues).
Big Data para o desenvolvimento, Ano 10 – Número 1.
"How to Use Big Data? Leading Experts' Roadmap to Data-Driven Innovation Projects. Key Results from the Digitasing Europe Initiative"
Letouzé, E., Sangokoya, D., Nov. 2017.
In cooperation with the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications.
"Human-AI Decision Systems"
Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Nov. 2017.
MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.
“Algorithmic accountability – Applying the concept to different country contexts”
This paper has been adapted by the Web Foundation from a draft report commissioned to David Sangokoya of Data-Pop Alliance, July 2017.
Web Foundation.
"Fair, Transparent and Accountable Algorithmic Decision-making Processes"
Lepri, B., Oliver, N., Letouzé, E., Pentland, A. & Vinck, P., Feb. 2017
Philosophy & Technology, Volumen 31.
"The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision-Making for Social Good"
Lepri, B., Staiano, J., Sangokoya, D., Letouzé, E. & Oliver, N.. Dec. 2016
Published at arXiv.org
“Leveraging Algorithms for Positive Disruption: On data, democracy,
society and statistics”
Letouzé, E., Sangokoya, D., Dec. 2015.
Data-Pop Alliance.
"Big Data and Privacy: Understanding the Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Data Revolution in Germany"
Vodafone Institute for Society and Communication, Digitasing Europe Initiative and Data-Pop Alliance, Nov. 2015.
Digitising Europe Initiative Paper #1.
Book Chapter - “Group Privacy in the Age of Big Data”
This chapter, authored by Lanah Kammourieh, Thomas Baar, Jos Berens, Emmanuel Letouzé, Julia Manske, John Palmer, and Patrick Vinck, will be part of a book edited by Linnet Taylor and Luciano Floridi, Sep. 2015.
“The Law, Politics and Ethics of Cell Phone Data Analytics”
Letouzé, E. Vinck, P, Kammourieh, L., 2015.
In collaboration with the World Bank Group and
the D4D team.
Measuring Development
How has the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of development projects changed in the last decades? Do we see new trends for the coming years? In the age of ‘goals’ and ‘targets’ is there a true agreement on the definition of development effectiveness? Can we leverage Big Data and AI to ensure a shift from “proving” to “improving”? These are some of the questions tackled in our research on how to best measure the impact of development interventions and programs.
"The ABCDE of Big Data: Assessing Biases in Call-Detail Records for Development Estimates"
Gabriel Pestre, Emmanuel Letouzé & Emilio Zagheni, Dec. 2019.
The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 34, Issue Supplement 1.
"Retrouver le sens de la mesure pour de meilleures décisions collectives: vers une intelligence artificielle humaine à l’ère des données"
Letouzé, E., 2019.
Contribution pour le magazine Regards croisés sur l’économie (p. 47 à 55).
"Harnessing Innovative Data and Technology to Measure Development Effectiveness"
Emmanuel Letouzé, Micol Stock, Francesca De Chiara, Alberto Lizzi and Carlos Mazariegos, May 2019.
Southern Voice
"Evaluación de nuevas herramientas y técnicas del big data para proyectos del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo"
Emmanuel Letouzé & Nicolás de Ligny Tandefelt, April 2019.
Data-Pop Alliance para el BID
"Harnessing Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Development Effectiveness"
Emmanuel Letouzé & Micol Stock, January 2019.
Southern Voice
Book chapter – "The Evaluation of Complex Development Interventions in the Age of Big Data"
Emmanuel Letouzé, Ana Areias & Sally Jackson, 2016.
In Dealing With Complexity in Development Evaluation: A Practical Approach
“Oportunidades y requerimientos para aprovechar el uso de Big Data para las estadísticas oficiales y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina”
Julia Manske, David Sangokoya, Gabriel Pestre and Emmanuel Letouzé, with contributions from Lauren Barrett, Natalie Shoup, and Andrés Clavijo, May 2016.
It was produced as part of a World Bank-supported project implemented by Data-Pop Alliance in partnership with Colombia’s Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE).
"La révolution des données
est-elle en marche?
Implications pour la statistique
publique et la démocratie"
Thomas Roca & Emmanuel Letouzé, 2016 (Available in French).
Dans Afrique contemporaine, 2016/2 (n° 258), pages 95 à 111.
"Big Data and Development: An Overview"
Emmanuel Letouzé, March 2015.
Data-Pop Alliance, Primers Series
“Official Statistics, Big Data, and Human Development”
Johannes Jütting and Emmanuel Letouzé, March 2015
White paper series in collaboration with PARIS21.
"Big Data & the SDGs"
Emmanuel Letouzé, Feb 2015.
Note for Global Sustainable Development Report.
Projects
Measuring the Unmeasured: Tier 3 SDGs
Developed in partnership with UNDP, this project seeks to enable governments to identify, collect and use non-classic sources of data to measure SDG Tier III indicators (for which ‘No internationally established methodology or standards are yet available for the indicator, but methodology/standards are being, or will be, developed or tested.’) at a national level and apply the results in policy-making in priority areas.
Human mobility and population density in the Maldives
Developed in partnership with UNDP, this project seeks to enable governments to identify, collect and use non-classic sources of data to measure SDG Tier III indicators (for which ‘No internationally established methodology or standards are yet available for the indicator, but methodology/standards are being, or will be, developed or tested.’) at a national level and apply the results in policy-making in priority areas.