UvA appoints Dr. Blazej Kuzniacki to conduct research on explainable artificial intelligence (AI) in tax law

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has appointed Dr. Blazej Kuzniacki as Assistant Professor in the field of tax law. The incoming expert will join the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) and will play an important role in the research project 'Designing the tax system for a Cashless, Platform-based and Technology-driven society' (CPT project).  His research will focus on how explainable AI can help design fair, efficient and fraud-proof tax systems. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has appointed Dr. Blazej Kuzniacki as a new Assistant Professor in the field of Tax and Technology, with a special focus on AI and direct taxation. Kuzniacki will join the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) and will be one of the academic leaders of the UvA's research project Designing the tax system for a Cashless, Platform-based and Technology-driven society (CPT project). The incoming expert will conduct collaborative and interdisciplinary research together with Evangelos Kanoulas , Professor of Information Retrieval at the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. Their research will focus particularly on explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in tax law, understood as meaningful insights on how a particular tax related decision is made by or with support of AI automated systems. This refers to a capacity of a given AI model to provide a taxpayer an explanation of the tax decision that makes sense to him or her, even if the output is not an explanation of the mathematics behind the decision as such. Kuzniacki's research efforts will contribute to addressing a key and fundamental question: how to ensure that AI tools deployed in the field of taxation are trustworthy and beneficial to all in society?