Bots at the Gate: A Human Rights Analysis of Automated Decision Making in Canada’s Immigration and Refugee System

Canada is experimenting with the use of automated decision-making, or AI, in its immigration system. A brand new report by the International Human Rights Program and the Citizen Lab looks at how algorithms and automated decision making will augment or replace human decision makers in Canada’s immigration and refugee system and highlights how the use of these technologies threatens to create a laboratory for high-risk experiments within an already highly discretionary system. Vulnerable and under-resourced communities such as non-citizens often have access to less robust human rights protections and fewer resources with which to defend those rights. Adopting these technologies in an irresponsible manner may only serve to exacerbate these disparities.

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Petra Molnar
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
International Human Rights Program

Fri, Sep 28, 2018
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building