In an October 2023 executive order (EO), President Biden issued a detailed
but largely aspirational road map for the safe and responsible development and
use of artificial intelligence (AI). The challenge for the January 24-25, 2024
workshop was to transform those aspirations regarding one specific but crucial
issue -- the ability of individuals to challenge government decisions made
about themselves -- into actionable guidance enabling agencies to develop,
procure, and use genuinely contestable advanced automated decision-making
systems. While the Administration has taken important steps since the October
2023 EO, the insights garnered from our workshop remain highly relevant, as the
requirements for contestability of advanced decision-making systems are not yet
fully defined or implemented.
The workshop brought together technologists, members of government agencies
and civil society organizations, litigators, and researchers in an intensive
two-day meeting that examined the challenges that users, developers, and
agencies faced in enabling contestability in light of advanced automated
decision-making systems. To ensure a free and open flow of discussion, the
meeting was held under a modified version of the Chatham House rule.
Participants were free to use any information or details that they learned, but
they may not attribute any remarks made at the meeting by the identity or the
affiliation of the speaker. Thus, the workshop summary that follows anonymizes
speakers and their affiliation. Where an identification of an agency, company,
or organization is made, it is done from a public, identified resource and does
not necessarily reflect statements made by participants at the workshop.
This document is a report of that workshop, along with recommendations and
explanatory material.

2023 年 10 月，拜登总统发布了一项详细但大部分抱负性内容的行政命令，为人工智能的安全和负责任发展提供了路线图。该研究报告总结了一个研讨会，探讨了在高级自动决策系统背景下，用户、开发人员和机构在促进抗议能力方面所面临的挑战，并提出了具体建议。