---
id: "aiethics:lecture/automated-society"
type: "AI Ethics course lecture"
title: "Discrimination in an Automated Society: Contributions from Latin America"
url: "https://aiethicscourse.org/lectures/automated-society"
authors: ["Catherine Muñoz"]
summary: "Do current Latin American laws protect people against discrimination due to the use of automated decision-making by AI? This module unpacks this question and considers legal frameworks to mitigate this challenge in the context of automated societies in Latin America."
source: "AI Ethics: Global Perspectives (aiethicscourse.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# Discrimination in an Automated Society: Contributions from Latin America

A lecture of the course [AI Ethics: Global Perspectives](https://aiethicscourse.org/).

## Lecturer

- Catherine Muñoz, Director and Founding Member, OptIA and Director, Idónea IA

## About this lecture

Do current Latin American laws protect people against discrimination due to the use of automated decision-making by artificial intelligence? How should an effective legal framework on this matter be configured? Based on these questions, this lecture analyzes this type of discrimination from the technical and regulatory point of view, provides a conceptual theory on the particularities of algorithmic discrimination situated and contextualized in Latin America, proposes the adoption of a relational principle based on a philosophical perspective, present in all Latin American indigenous peoples, and offer a new interpretive approach to the principle of equality and the concept of discrimination under a collective view, in order to overcome normative challenges evidenced in comparative law.

## Video and transcript

- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlITWCymm-8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlITWCymm-8)
- Transcript (PDF): [https://aiethicscourse.org/img/946e5fe3-2275-4837-a04c-ad54670f1d5d.pdf](https://aiethicscourse.org/img/946e5fe3-2275-4837-a04c-ad54670f1d5d.pdf)

## Read, watch, and listen

- [OptIA Chile](https://optia.cl/)
- [Discrimination in An Automated Society: Contributions from Latin America](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3954968), Muñoz, Catherine. Discrimination in An Automated Society: Contributions from Latin America. Chilean Review of Law and Technology 10, 1, 271-307 (2021). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-2584.2021.5879
- [21 Definitions of Fairness by Arvind Narayanan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXIuYdnyyk)
- [Data Feminism](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism), D’Ignazio, C. and Klein, Lauren F.. Data Feminism. MIT Press, 2020.
- [Eddie Murphy and the Dangers of Counterfactual Causal Thinking About Detecting Racial Discrimination](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3050650), Kohler-Hausmann, I. Eddie Murphy and the Dangers of Counterfactual Causal Thinking About Detecting Racial Discrimination (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3050650