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Request date: 11 July 2023
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Online version: https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/about-us/freedomofinformation/ai-machine-learning
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
Answering ‘Yes’, ‘No’ or ‘Not known’, please can the Gambling Commission state whether it has used any of the following methods, algorithms, systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning on any of its datasets: (a) ‘Perceptron’ (Wikipedia page for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron (opens in new tab)), (b) ‘K-means’ (Wikipedia page for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering (opens in new tab)), (c) ‘K-nearest neighbours’ (Wikipedia page for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-nearest_neighbors_algorithm (opens in new tab)), (d) ‘Support vector machines’ (Wikipedia page for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine (opens in new tab)), (e) ‘Natural Language Processing’ (NLP, Wikipedia page for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing (opens in new tab)), (f) ‘Random forests’ (Wikipedia page for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest (opens in new tab))
Where any of the answers to questions (1)(a-f) are ‘Yes’, please can you share the outputs and (intermediate) results from that work as well as accompanying summaries/explanations? Where the outputs and (intermediate) results are not disclosable for any reasons, please provide a summary of findings wherever feasible.
When considering the answers to questions (1) - (2), please can you explain what these (intermediate) results, outputs etc. were directly used for insofar as the activities and purpose of the Gambling Commission are concerned, particularly your five strategic objectives (retrieved from this webpage as of 11 July 2023: https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/about-us/guide/our-strategy-for-the-next-three-years) of ‘1. Protecting children and vulnerable people from being harmed by gambling’, ‘2. A fairer mark and more informed consumers’, ‘3. Keeping crime out of gambling’, ‘4. Optimise returns to good causes from The National Lottery’, ‘5. Improved gambling regulation’.
When considering the answers to questions (1) - (3), how does the Gambling Commission mitigate against the risk of biases and discrimination when deploying such systems, methods and algorithms and, where applicable, please can you share a copy of any documented procedures you use for ensuring fairness, accountability and transparency during and after usage of such systems, methods and algorithms?
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