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Public authorities are increasingly investing in digital tools to help them make legal decisions. It is efficient and saves resources. On paper! But in practice, computers and people think fundamentally differently when making decisions. For example, a legal error and a computer science error are two completely different concepts. It is often unclear who is responsible for the error and whether the citizen or company to whom the decision relates can be compensated. 

It is precisely the interaction between errors in the legal and computer science sense and the responsibility for these errors that a new project involving Christina Lioma from Department of Computer Science and Helle Krunke, Michael Gøtze and Vibe Ulfbeck from the Faculty of Law. All from the University of Copenhagen. The project also involves the Agency for Student Allowance (SU Styrelsen) as a partner.

The research project has received a Data+ grant. Focusing on the concept of errors, which are fundamental in both computer science and law, they will develop algorithms that approximate the legal and computer science maladaptation to each other. This means that in the future we will see fewer errors in the decisions that the machines are helping to make on our behalf, and that responsibility for the errors can be placed more easily. Christina Lioma and Helle Krunke, are PI´s on the ERRATUM project.

The University of Copenhagen's Data+ aims to finance interdisciplinary projects that integrate computer science into new research areas. #data #bigdata #research #datascience