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The Impending Judicial Regulation Of Artificial Intelligence In The Administrative State, Aram A. Gavoor
The Impending Judicial Regulation Of Artificial Intelligence In The Administrative State, Aram A. Gavoor
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms are being deployed in executive branch agencies at a brisk pace and with no executive branch account for their use. The proliferation of AI in government raises civil rights concerns because it has been found—at a general level—to succumb to racial and gender biases when AI algorithms are incompetently or intentionally trained. Policy solutions have been put forth to mitigate the issue of such AI uses in government, some of which are in the process of being implemented. Despite these gains, the political branches of the federal government have limited time to act before their primary …
A Versatile Prism: Assessing Procurement Law Through The Principal-Agent Model, Christopher R. Yukins
A Versatile Prism: Assessing Procurement Law Through The Principal-Agent Model, Christopher R. Yukins
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Over the past several decades, the federal procurement system in the United States has grown remarkably, and now totals over $500 billion annually.
Over that same period, the rules governing federal procurement have been buffeted by broad efforts at reform. At no point, however, have we ever had an overarching theory - a model or prism - through which to assess the procurement system or its reform. Agency theory provides one such theoretical model. Long established in economics and the other social sciences, the principal-agent model (agency theory) provides a model to explain successes (and failures) in organizational structures, and …