Senior Fellow, Trustworthy AI
2022-2024
India
Amber Sinha works at the intersection of law, technology, and society, and studies the impact of digital technologies on socio-political processes and structures. Until June 2022, he served as the Executive Director of the Centre for Internet and Society, India. He has led programs on civil liberties research, including privacy, identity, AI, cybersecurity and free speech. Amber’s research has been cited with appreciation by the Supreme Court of India and several government committees.
Amber is a member of the GPA Reference Panel of Global Privacy Assembly. Amber studied law and humanities at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
Fellowship Project
Amber is writing an open-access publication on post facto adequation as a regulatory tool for algorithmic transparency. Drawing on due process standards as well as various expert perspectives in South Asia, Amber is increasing stakeholders’ awareness about transparency mechanisms that will improve algorithmic accountability for critical AI systems.
Knowing Without Seeing is his research project exploring meaningful transparency solutions for opaque algorithms that privilege comprehension over mere access to information.
Learn more about Amber's work
'The Landscape of Facial Recognition Technologies in India' Tech Policy Press. 2024.
'The Many Questions About India's New AI Advisory' Tech Policy Press. 2024.
'Why AI Needs to Explain Itself' Mozilla. 2023.
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Fellowships & Awards Feb. 14, 2024A Public Administration Route to Algorithmic Transparency, Part III: Thresholds for Transparency in Private Sector
The features of administrative law which render it suitable for public sector use of AI could also be extended meaningfully to private sector uses.
Amber Sinha
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Fellowships & Awards Feb. 7, 2024A Public Administration Route to Algorithmic Transparency, Part II: Thresholds for Transparency in Public Sector
The use of algorithmic systems for public use comes with this own set of transparency expectations. The history of administrative decisions offers a rich body which can clearly inform the threshold of transparency for these decisions and how to apply them.
Amber Sinha
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Fellowships & Awards Jan. 31, 2024A Public Administration Route to Algorithmic Transparency I: The Anatomy of Administrative Law
Public administration, with its complex machinery and delegation of decision-making is uniquely suited as an analogy to algorithmic systems. The domain administrative law which governs it, thus, offers useful lessons for the transparency of AI systems.
Amber Sinha
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Fellowships & Awards Sept. 27, 2023
Collaboration and Impact on Trustworthy AI: A Review of Mozilla's Senior Fellowships
A reflection of accomplishments by Mozilla's Senior Fellows in 2023.
Koliwe Majama and Jaselle Edward-Gill
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Mozilla Festival May 18, 2021Big Tech and Germany's Election — a May 25th virtual panel
Join Felix Kartte, Julia Reinhardt and Amber Sinha in a panel moderated by Julie Owono about Germany's upcoming federal election and the role of big tech. Will platforms take the same actions as they did in the 2020 US Elections?
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Fellowships & Awards March 1, 2022Seven New Senior Fellows Selected to Help Fuel the Movement for Trustworthy AI
Mozilla’s first cohort of Senior Fellows in Trustworthy AI, and our newest Senior Fellow in Policy, are a formidable group drawn from various backgrounds and offering a diverse set of knowledge and skills.
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