Towards an equitable solar energy transition: On reaching the solar climate goals in Amsterdam - a socioeconomic perspective on solar energy adoption using a data-driven modeling technique

To combat the effects of climate change, there is a worldwide shift to reduced emissions and increased use of renewable energy sources. Solar energy is a vital part of this transition and necessary to be able to achieve the targets. The rapid pace of adaptation raises questions about the negative equity and justice associated with this...

Situating Explainable AI in the socio-technical context: A system safety inspired approach to operationalizing explainability

Explainable AI is the field concerned with trying to make AI understandable to humans. While efforts have resulted in significant improvement in research and practical methods of Explainable AI, there is an urgent need for additional research and empirical studies. The academic research gaps identified in this thesis show that Explainable AI is...

Citizen safety in governmental AI-supported decision-making: An explorative systems perspective using design science for innovative reaearch

Governmental AI-supported decision-making is paramount when impacting citizens. Citizens are subject to their government’s decision-making, which is crucial when they transact, as examining the transaction’s rightfulness is executed by the same government. Thus, control and monitoring are evident, which are increasingly applied through AI...

Ripple Effects of Law Execution Automation in Governmental Systems: The Wajong Case

The use of Automated Decision Making (ADM) systems in the public sector will become increasingly prevalent in the future, making citizens increasingly likely to be confronted with decisions that have been made fully automatically, without human intervention. Ever more digitization increases the opaqueness of the social benefits system in the...

Guiding the specification of sociotechnical Machine Learning systems: Addressing vulnerabilities and challenges in Machine Learning practice

There is a need for a more comprehensive sociotechnical systems view on ML. Such a view looks at the development and use of an ML system in practice as being a sociotechnical ML system: "a system consisting of technical artefacts, human agents and institutions, in which a machine-based subsystem influences its real or virtual environment by...

AI Governance in the City of Amsterdam: Scrutinising Vulnerabilities of Public Sector AI Systems

Scandals in which governmental ADM tools played a role, have recently brought<br/>about political and societal debate about the potential harms to citizens that such automated systems potentially bring. This thesis focuses on ADM systems which contain an AI component. Based on the knowledge gaps perceived,<br/>the main research question for this...