If fairness or discrimination is measured as the number or proportion of instances in each group classified to a certain class, then one can use standard statistical tests (e. g., two sample t-test) to check if there is systematic/statistically significant differences between groups. Fourthly, the use of ML algorithms may lead to discriminatory results because of the proxies chosen by the programmers. Neg can be analogously defined. Bias is to fairness as discrimination is to rule. Accessed 11 Nov 2022. Knowledge Engineering Review, 29(5), 582–638.
Murphy, K. : Machine learning: a probabilistic perspective. Legally, adverse impact is defined by the 4/5ths rule, which involves comparing the selection or passing rate for the group with the highest selection rate (focal group) with the selection rates of other groups (subgroups). Bias is to fairness as discrimination is to influence. This seems to amount to an unjustified generalization. Operationalising algorithmic fairness. We are extremely grateful to an anonymous reviewer for pointing this out. OECD launched the Observatory, an online platform to shape and share AI policies across the globe. Second, data-mining can be problematic when the sample used to train the algorithm is not representative of the target population; the algorithm can thus reach problematic results for members of groups that are over- or under-represented in the sample.
For a more comprehensive look at fairness and bias, we refer you to the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. Six of the most used definitions are equalized odds, equal opportunity, demographic parity, fairness through unawareness or group unaware, treatment equality. This is conceptually similar to balance in classification. Here, comparable situation means the two persons are otherwise similarly except on a protected attribute, such as gender, race, etc. Certifying and removing disparate impact. Similarly, some Dutch insurance companies charged a higher premium to their customers if they lived in apartments containing certain combinations of letters and numbers (such as 4A and 20C) [25]. 2017) apply regularization method to regression models. Troublingly, this possibility arises from internal features of such algorithms; algorithms can be discriminatory even if we put aside the (very real) possibility that some may use algorithms to camouflage their discriminatory intents [7]. Importantly, such trade-off does not mean that one needs to build inferior predictive models in order to achieve fairness goals. A Data-driven analysis of the interplay between Criminological theory and predictive policing algorithms. Bias is to Fairness as Discrimination is to. Cotter, A., Gupta, M., Jiang, H., Srebro, N., Sridharan, K., & Wang, S. Training Fairness-Constrained Classifiers to Generalize.
Noise: a flaw in human judgment. For example, an assessment is not fair if the assessment is only available in one language in which some respondents are not native or fluent speakers. For more information on the legality and fairness of PI Assessments, see this Learn page. Prevention/Mitigation. A paradigmatic example of direct discrimination would be to refuse employment to a person on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability, among other possible grounds. Baber, H. : Gender conscious. Applied to the case of algorithmic discrimination, it entails that though it may be relevant to take certain correlations into account, we should also consider how a person shapes her own life because correlations do not tell us everything there is to know about an individual. Cossette-Lefebvre, H. : Direct and Indirect Discrimination: A Defense of the Disparate Impact Model. Yet, it would be a different issue if Spotify used its users' data to choose who should be considered for a job interview. AI’s fairness problem: understanding wrongful discrimination in the context of automated decision-making. Some people in group A who would pay back the loan might be disadvantaged compared to the people in group B who might not pay back the loan. Eidelson defines discrimination with two conditions: "(Differential Treatment Condition) X treat Y less favorably in respect of W than X treats some actual or counterfactual other, Z, in respect of W; and (Explanatory Condition) a difference in how X regards Y P-wise and how X regards or would regard Z P-wise figures in the explanation of this differential treatment. " Even though fairness is overwhelmingly not the primary motivation for automating decision-making and that it can be in conflict with optimization and efficiency—thus creating a real threat of trade-offs and of sacrificing fairness in the name of efficiency—many authors contend that algorithms nonetheless hold some potential to combat wrongful discrimination in both its direct and indirect forms [33, 37, 38, 58, 59].
In addition, statistical parity ensures fairness at the group level rather than individual level. This guideline could be implemented in a number of ways. Proceedings of the 2009 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 581–592. This points to two considerations about wrongful generalizations. Introduction to Fairness, Bias, and Adverse Impact. Respondents should also have similar prior exposure to the content being tested. Our digital trust survey also found that consumers expect protection from such issues and that those organisations that do prioritise trust benefit financially. This is, we believe, the wrong of algorithmic discrimination. Such outcomes are, of course, connected to the legacy and persistence of colonial norms and practices (see above section). 51(1), 15–26 (2021). See also Kamishima et al. A Convex Framework for Fair Regression, 1–5.
The point is that using generalizations is wrongfully discriminatory when they affect the rights of some groups or individuals disproportionately compared to others in an unjustified manner. The regularization term increases as the degree of statistical disparity becomes larger, and the model parameters are estimated under constraint of such regularization. Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Kleinberg, J., Ludwig, J., et al. In other words, a probability score should mean what it literally means (in a frequentist sense) regardless of group. Bias is to fairness as discrimination is to mean. For instance, in Canada, the "Oakes Test" recognizes that constitutional rights are subjected to reasonable limits "as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society" [51]. Yet, one may wonder if this approach is not overly broad. 2018), relaxes the knowledge requirement on the distance metric. Kamiran, F., Calders, T., & Pechenizkiy, M. Discrimination aware decision tree learning. 3 that the very process of using data and classifications along with the automatic nature and opacity of algorithms raise significant concerns from the perspective of anti-discrimination law.
Roughly, we can conjecture that if a political regime does not premise its legitimacy on democratic justification, other types of justificatory means may be employed, such as whether or not ML algorithms promote certain preidentified goals or values. Kleinberg, J., Lakkaraju, H., Leskovec, J., Ludwig, J., & Mullainathan, S. Human decisions and machine predictions. Their algorithm depends on deleting the protected attribute from the network, as well as pre-processing the data to remove discriminatory instances. For instance, one could aim to eliminate disparate impact as much as possible without sacrificing unacceptable levels of productivity. In essence, the trade-off is again due to different base rates in the two groups. Footnote 10 As Kleinberg et al. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 4(2), 1–40. Footnote 16 Eidelson's own theory seems to struggle with this idea. Strasbourg: Council of Europe - Directorate General of Democracy, Strasbourg.. (2018). Washing Your Car Yourself vs. We come back to the question of how to balance socially valuable goals and individual rights in Sect. Unlike disparate impact, which is intentional, adverse impact is unintentional in nature. For demographic parity, the overall number of approved loans should be equal in both group A and group B regardless of a person belonging to a protected group.
How do fairness, bias, and adverse impact differ? Many AI scientists are working on making algorithms more explainable and intelligible [41]. 2011) use regularization technique to mitigate discrimination in logistic regressions. Mancuhan and Clifton (2014) build non-discriminatory Bayesian networks.
Thirdly, we discuss how these three features can lead to instances of wrongful discrimination in that they can compound existing social and political inequalities, lead to wrongful discriminatory decisions based on problematic generalizations, and disregard democratic requirements. 2013) propose to learn a set of intermediate representation of the original data (as a multinomial distribution) that achieves statistical parity, minimizes representation error, and maximizes predictive accuracy. What's more, the adopted definition may lead to disparate impact discrimination. Arguably, in both cases they could be considered discriminatory. This is perhaps most clear in the work of Lippert-Rasmussen. Second, as we discuss throughout, it raises urgent questions concerning discrimination. Calibration within group means that for both groups, among persons who are assigned probability p of being. 104(3), 671–732 (2016). Hence, the algorithm could prioritize past performance over managerial ratings in the case of female employee because this would be a better predictor of future performance. However, it may be relevant to flag here that it is generally recognized in democratic and liberal political theory that constitutionally protected individual rights are not absolute.
To illustrate, consider the following case: an algorithm is introduced to decide who should be promoted in company Y. Yang and Stoyanovich (2016) develop measures for rank-based prediction outputs to quantify/detect statistical disparity. 2011) discuss a data transformation method to remove discrimination learned in IF-THEN decision rules.
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