Equality and Artificial Intelligence
This Recommendation guides member States in preventing and combating discrimination within the lifecycle of AI systems – from their design, through their use, and at all points up to their retirement. Special attention is given to transparency of AI systems and their ability to provide clear explanations to humans for their actions (“explainability”), as well as to strengthening procedural safeguards and remedies. The explanatory memorandum to the recommendation identifies policy fields in which AI may have a particularly acute impact on equality including gender equality. The recommendation focuses on three types of discrimination: gender and sex, racism, and sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).
During its current mandate (2024-2027), the CDADI will undertake activities to support the implementation of the Recommendation CM/Rec(2026)1 on equality and AI:
- Preparing a compilation of compilation of promising practices and/or tool(s) for the implementation at national level of relevant aspects of this recommendation (in co-operation with GEC)
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2026)1 on equality and artificial intelligence and CM(2025)180-add4final Explanatory Memorandum to CM/Rec(2026)
- Study on the impact of artificial intelligence systems, their potential for promoting equality, including gender equality, and the risks they may cause in relation to non-discrimination” adopted by the CDADI in 2023.
- European policy guidelines on AI and algorithm-driven discrimination for equality bodies and other national human rights structures (also in FRA, DUT, POR, FIN, SWE)
- Legal protection against algorithmic discrimination in Europe: current frameworks and remaining gaps (also in FRA, DUT, POR, FIN, SWE)
- AI & discrimination
- Steering Committee for New and Emerging Digital Technologies (CDNET)
- Risk and impact assessment of AI systems from the point of view of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (HUDERIA), HUDERIA Model: Context-Based Risk Analysis (COBRA)
- CoE Commissioner for Human Rights, Digital technologies and human rights - Commissioner for Human Rights
- CAI - Committee on Artificial Intelligence
- EU Fundamental Rights Agency, Artificial intelligence and big data | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
- Study on "Discrimination, artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making" (commissioned by the Council of Europe’s European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance)