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AlgorithmWatch is a non-profit research and advocacy organisation to evaluate and shed light on algorithmic decision making processes that have a social relevance, meaning they are used either to predict or prescribe human action or to make decisions automatically.

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Blog 2 months ago
Chatbots & Democratic Decisionmakers - Guidelines
1. Why we made these guidelines These guidelines emerged out of our research into the use of AI chatbots in the context of democratic decision-making (in governments, among politicians, etc.) and the potential risks this brings to democratic accountabilit
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Blog 2 months ago
In Small Towns Across France, Victims Face an Uphill Battle for Justice Over AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
"After the anger comes guilt, the guilt of having exposed your child to a child sex offender." For nearly six months, Pauline, a young mother living near Bordeaux, France, has been asking herself the same question over and over: could her son A., now seve
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Blog 3 months ago
Click, Strip, Repeat: Sex Workers and Digital Violence Amidst the Deepfake Boom
Content warning: This article discusses real stories of non-consensual sexualised deepfakes, image-based abuse, online harassment, sextortion, and the psychological impact of digital violence. After being targeted with a swarm of fake nude photos of herse
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Blog 3 months ago
Sexualized violence in the digital sphere: Who is affected, what are the consequences, and how can you defend yourself?
Kamala Harris, Azma Bukhari, Paris Hilton, Greta Thunberg: All of these women are public figures, but they have something else in common, too: they became victims of sexualied deepfakes, created without their consent and circulated online. The misuse of g
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Blog 4 months ago
Seen and Silenced: How Russian Surveillance Software Suppresses Georgian Civilians Rights
In mid-March 2025, Nino, a Georgian PR lecturer in her 40s, received a call from the court. The assistant to a judge at the Tbilisi City Court summoned her to a hearing for blocking a road in the Georgian capital city two and a half months earlier. The ca
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Blog 4 months ago
How Algorithmic Systems Govern Kenya's Content Moderators
Lilian (names followed by a star have been pseudonymized) is a former content moderator for a major US-based outsourcing firm in Nairobi. She describes repeated periods of being placed "on the bench" for months at a time, leaving her without stable income
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Blog 4 months ago
The AI Omnibus: a rollback of AI safeguards before they even apply
The AI Omnibus should not have happened. The AI Act was adopted after years of negotiation and compromise, yet some of its most important safeguards have not even started to apply. Instead of supporting implementation through guidance, resources and stron
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News algorithmwatch.org 4 months ago
Resource consumption of AI: The insatiable industry and its costs
Artificial intelligence does not simply fall from the sky. Its development, hardware production and everyday operation consume vast amounts of electricity, water and other resources. Yet tech companies remain reluctant to disclose the true costs to people
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News AlgorithmWatch 6 months ago
Copy, paste, govern: Microsoft ghostwrote EU policy that keeps data centers' energy use secret
The EU Commission's policy on data centers keeps information on the energy and water use of individual centers under wraps. Research by Corporate and Europe Observatory and AlgorithmWatch, published by Investigate Europe, reveals the Commission copied and
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~2 days
10/17/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Management
100% ▼

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
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Hiring now
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1
Busiest office
Berlin
Berlin Germany
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Management
seen since Mar 2026 job postings