From Analog Risk Assessment Instruments to Digital Ones: Mapping the Concerns

Digital RAIs raise significant concerns, including opacity and discrimination. However, limited to no knowledge exists on the transition from analogue to digital RAIs and on reasons for non-adoption of technology. To investigate this, we reviewed newspaper archives for debates on RAIs and conducted interviews with high-ranking officials from Moldova. The study yielded considerations for the nonadoption of RAIs and the (non-)transition from analogue to digital RAIs. It highlighted a gap: The lack of a unified theory for technology non-adoption, which can be addressed by drawing insights from innovation resistance and adoption theories.