Discrimination

Discrimination is developing at speed as the No 1 ethical risk for a typical insurer. What every insurer needs to be assembling is the evidence of how they are managing discrimination in relation to their deals with customers across all business functions. Has the reporting got the right scope and depth? Is it based upon the right perspective? The articles will help a lot.
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Discrimination
Fairness as a Service : a Step Forward for Insurers public
Fairness 8 min read

Fairness as a Service : a Step Forward for Insurers

A data and analytics provider to the insurance sector has launched fairness as a service. It’s orientated around the US requirement that insurers do not unfairly discriminate. It’s the sort of service that a recent UK Gov. report called for. I examine how it works and what it points to.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Why the FCA’s Views on AI Regulation are a Gamble public
Regulation 5 min read

Why the FCA’s Views on AI Regulation are a Gamble

The FCA has sent a strong signal to insurers that they will not be pushing for any new regulations relating to AI. Confidence in the impact of existing regulations is clearly high. Yet what matters at the moment will be speed of impact. Are the FCA taking an almighty gamble? And will it pay off?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Why This Approach to AI, Insurance and Regulation is Flawed public
Data Ethics 8 min read

Why This Approach to AI, Insurance and Regulation is Flawed

A leading insurance institution has set out its views on how insurers’ use of AI should be regulated. Their aim is to give insurers a ‘right to innovate’. Their case is cleverly constructed, but underlying it are some flawed interpretations. I critique the report and offer a more realistic view.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
A Legal Spotlight Turns on Discrimination in Claims public
Claims 4 min read

A Legal Spotlight Turns on Discrimination in Claims

Insurers using algorithms in claims and fraud decisions should now prepare for much greater scrutiny of how such systems are designed and used. A legal challenge in the US alleging discrimination has in part passed a key legal milestone. I weigh up the ramifications of what could be a landmark case.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
A Test Case on Data Ethics that Insurers Need to Watch public
Data Ethics 5 min read

A Test Case on Data Ethics that Insurers Need to Watch

Location data is becoming positioned as a tangible example of how data ethics is to be addressed. A UK Gov. commission wants to boost public confidence in how location data is collected and used. Insurers need to monitor the commission’s work to understand policy makers expectations.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
The Risks Insurers Run as Buyers of Secondary Data public
Privacy 3 min read

The Risks Insurers Run as Buyers of Secondary Data

A technology activist has released a huge file of segmentation data into the public domain. It shows the extent to which data brokers are scraping data and selling it for “identities”. As significant users of secondary data, insurers need to take great care managing exposures like this.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Why Insurers must Manage their Ethical Debt public
Accountability 3 min read

Why Insurers must Manage their Ethical Debt

Many digital decision systems deployed in insurance carry unknown levels of ethical debt. Over the next 3 to 5 years, a lot of that ethical debt will need to be repaid. In some circumstances, the amount could be very substantial. So what should insurers do now to prepare for this?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
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