Qualifying algorithmic secrecy

欧洲平等机构在平衡知识产权与有效适用反歧视法方面的作用对人工智能的日益依赖，使人们能够发现一个潜在的危险悖论。虽然这些技术有可能加剧不平等，但平等法适用于这些歧视性行为的风险，可能会受到知识产权带来的算法保密的阻碍。然而，尽管承认了这一点，但在不牺牲人工智能开发者或公民利益的情况下缓解这种紧张关系的解决方案尚未提出。因此，本项目旨在通过调查在多大程度上引入访问权作为国家平等机构权力的一部分，可以有效缓解知识产权与欧洲平等法之间的紧张关系，来填补这一空白。该项目着眼于先前存在的关于公开使用算法的专有性质与反歧视法之间紧张关系的批评，将透明度确定为限制欧洲平等法有效应用的关键因素。一方面，认识到越来越多的人支持通过基于专业知识的获取权来解决这种紧张关系，另一方面，认识到国家平等机构在预防和挑战歧视方面的重要性，本项目将寻求评估将这种获取权纳入欧洲平等机构法律任务的优点。反过来，将根据这些机构行使这种权利的必要性、它们是否适合发挥这一作用以及这种方法是否能够反映用于证明对算法和数据进行强有力的知识产权保护是合理的主题来分析这一假设。

The Role of European Equality Bodies in Balancing Intellectual Property with the Effective Application of Anti-Discrimination LawsThe growing reliance on AI has enabled the identification of a potentially dangerous paradox. While these technologies are capable of reinforcing inequality, the application of equality laws to these discriminatory acts is at risk of being hindered by the presence of algorithmic secrecy enabled by intellectual property. However, despite this acknowledgement, a solution which mitigates such tension without trading-off the interests of either AI developers or citizens is yet to be advanced.Consequently, this project aims to fill in this gap by investigating the extent to which introducing access rights as part of national equality bodies' powers could effectively mitigate the tension between intellectual property and European equality law. Focusing on pre-existing criticism relating to the tension between the proprietary nature of publicly used algorithms and anti-discrimination law, this project will identify transparency as the key factor that limits the effective application of European equality laws. Acknowledging, on the one hand, the growing support for addressing this tension via expertise-based access rights and, on the other, the importance of national equality bodies in preventing and challenging discrimination, this project will seek to assess the merits of integrating such access rights as part of the legal mandate of European equality bodies. This hypothesis, in turn, will be analysed with reference to the necessity of these bodies for such a right, their suitability for this role, and theability of this approach to reflect themes used to justify the strong level of intellectual property protection of algorithms and data.