16 – Algorithmic Transparency in the Public Sector Recommendations for Governments to Enhance the Transparency of Public Algorithms

This report is a product of the "Algorithmic Transparency in the Public Sector" project developed by Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) experts. The project is carried out by GPAI experts from the Responsible Artificial Intelligence and Data Governance Working Groups. The project’s overall objective is to study algorithmic transparency in the public sector, emphasising evaluating reactive and proactive transparency instruments that can enable governments to comply with algorithmic transparency principles, standards, and rules. The project examines the strengths and weaknesses of these instruments, the challenges for their construction, their various uses and users, the costs, how the instruments complement one another, and their possible contributions to transparency and various objectives (e.g., explainability, accountability). This report analyses the findings of the previous studies (GPAI, 2024; GPAI, forthcoming) and, based on that, presents recommendations for governments regarding the use of instruments to comply with algorithmic transparency principles, standards, and rules. The recommendations will include practical tools such as decision trees and benchmarks to compare the strengths and weaknesses of different transparency instruments.