Fairness

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Nearly 40 years ago, the esteemed accounting professor Yuji Ijiri suggested that fairness is one of the most essential concepts in accounting and asked how to ensure a fair information flow system. In a new analysis, researchers examine whether it is feasible to establish a fair accounting framework in a logically and mathematically rigorous manner and then propose a framework for doing so.…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Both liberals and conservatives are more likely to believe that merit-based hiring is unfair after learning about the impacts of socioeconomic disparities, according to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. People from across the political spectrum also are more likely to support programs that…

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed many areas, like healthcare and finance, by bringing new solutions and making things more efficient. Yet, this quick growth has led to a big problem: AI bias. AI systems learn from data. If this data has biases from past unfairness, social stereotypes, or uneven sampling, AI models might continue and even increase these biases. This issue is really important in areas like credit scoring, hiring, and law enforcement. In these fields, biased decisions can greatly affect people's…

Too Long; Didn't ReadThis section unfolds the architecture of Fairness as a Service (FaaS), a revolutionary system for ensuring trust in fairness audits within machine learning. The discussion encompasses the threat model, protocol overview, and the essential phases: setup, cryptogram generation, and fairness evaluation. FaaS introduces a robust approach, incorporating cryptographic proofs and verifiable steps, offering a secure foundation for fair evaluations in the ML landscape. Too Long; Didn't ReadThis section…

Exploring the Impact of Encoding Protected Attributes on Fairness in MLLady Justice at dawn from UnsplashWe will explore the world of categorical attribute encoding and its implications for machine learning models in terms of accuracy and fairness. Categorical attributes, such as country of birth or ethnicity, play a crucial role in determining the presence of sensitive information in data. However, many machine learning algorithms struggle to directly process categorical attributes, necessitating the use of encoding…

If members of the shadow frontbench seek inspiration on how to differentiate their future administration from the mendacious nonentities who have run the country for the past 13 years, they could do worse than read this book. Free and Equal is a stirring call by an LSE philosopher and economist for egalitarian liberalism based on the ideas of John Rawls. The late Harvard professor wrote a book 50 years ago that saw him feted as a political thinker of the calibre of Plato, Hobbes and Mill, but, as far as I can tell, he had…

Despite their ability to crank out incredibly lifelike prose, generative AIs like Google's Bard or OpenAI's ChatGPT (powered by GPT-4), have already shown the current limitations of gen-AI technology as well as their own tenuous grasp of the facts — arguing that the JWST was the first telescope to image an exoplanet, and that Elvis' dad was an actor. But with this much market share at stake, what are a few misquoted facts against getting their product into the hands of consumers as quickly as possible?  The team over at…

As a white man in America with no discernible regional accent, I can simply assume that modern consumer technologies — virtual assistants like , and my phones’ camera — will work seamlessly out of the box. I assume this because, well, they do. That’s namely because the nerds who design and program these devices overwhelmingly both look and sound just like me — if even a little whiter. Folks with and extra don’t enjoy that same privilege. Tomorrow’s chatbots and visual AIs will only serve to exacerbate this bias unless…

In 2011, a Burnley businessman named Dave Fishwick established a lending company, Burnley Savings and Loans Limited. The 2008 financial crash had deprived the area of opportunity; small businesses were struggling to make ends meet. Fishwick, who grew up poor in Burnley, but who later set up a successful minivan business, began loaning money to locals, often people he knew by name. “It’s quite antediluvian in a way,” says the actor Rory Kinnear. “All the people he lends money to, he wants to meet them, see what they’re…