From left to right: José A. Brandariz, Xulio Ferreiro, Kelly Hannah-Moffat

[ENG] In early May, Prof Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Professor of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies and Vice-President for People Strategy, Equity and Culture of the University of Toronto, Canada, spent a short visiting period at the University of A Coruna, invited by ECRIM. In the framework of this period, Prof Hannah-Moffat engaged with ECRIM scholars in conversations on the utilisation of AI-based devices in the criminal justice system, which are connected to one national and one EU research projects currently carried out by ECRIM.

Kelly Hannah-Moffat

In addition, Prof Hannah-Moffat gave two talks, organised in collaboration between ECRIM and the UDC’s Ms Programme on Digital and AI Law (MUDDIA). On May 2, she addressed a Ms student and scholar audience making a presentation on ‘Automated decisions, risk algorithms and the “datafied subject”‘. By contrast, on May 3 Prof Hannah-Moffat presented to a scholar audience a more theoretically developed paper called ‘Algorithmic Shifts and the Allure of Equitable Calculability: Risk, Recidivism, Machine learning and Penality‘, which elaborates her analysis on the transition between psychology-based risk algorithms and AI-based algorithms.