Emma Finlay

I am a graduate researcher in the University of Melbourne node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. My research, which will examine the human intervention in repositories of decision-making powers’ regulatory response to ADM, is being supervised by Dr Jake Goldenfein, Professor Kristen Rundle, and Professor Andrew Kenyon.

I graduated in the top ten percent of my undergraduate degree in Law from UCC School of Law, Cork and Temple Law School, Philadelphia, and graduated cum laude with the additional honours programme the ‘Academic Excellence Track’ from my master’s degree in public international law from Amsterdam Law School, Amsterdam.

I have also worked as a research analyst on the Horizon Europe projects ‘CEASEFIRE’ which concerns AI technologies to combat illicit firearms trafficking, and ‘EURMARS’ which is developing an advanced platform to improve European border security. My previous role in CEASEFIRE involved leading contributions to all legal, ethical, personal data, fundamental rights, and privacy aspects.

Thesis Title

The Role of Human Oversight in AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Navigating the Conceptual and Regulatory Complexities

Thesis Summary

Human oversight is embraced as a tool in the regulatory response to AI-assisted decision-making. Despite its prevalence, or perhaps because of it, what is meant by ‘human oversight’- and what forms and functions its inclusion is meant to play- is far from clear in many of the contexts in which this term appears.

This thesis inquires into the conceptual and regulatory complexities of human oversight as a regulatory tool. By conceptually investigating the different forms and functions of human oversight as codified in regulation, this thesis asks where are the troubles, and promises, of human oversight as a regulatory tool for AI-assisted decision-making?

Supervisors

Administrative/Public Law
Regulating emerging technologies
AI and robots
Law and Society