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0 0 likes | 17 17 playsResearch on machine learning (ML) algorithms, as well as on their ethical impacts, has focused largely on mathematical or computational questions. However, for…
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0 0 likes | 4 4 playsMicrosoft is home to the world’s largest developer communities and ecosystems with Azure, GitHub, and Visual Studio. Thus, having sustainable and inclusive…
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0 0 likes | 81 81 playsWhile scholars often examine the ways in which technologies fail and marginalize communities, this event focuses on an equally critical goal of adopting an abolitionist…
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0 0 likes | 4 4 playsOur research group is currently trying to shed light on what we think is one of the most pressing dangers presaged by the increasing power and reach of AI…
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0 0 likes | 8 8 playsIn response to growing concerns of bias, discrimination, and unfairness perpetuated by algorithmic systems, the datasets used to train and evaluate machine learning…
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0 0 likes | 6 6 playsRisk assessment instruments are used across the criminal justice system to estimate the probability of some future behavior given covariates. The estimated probabilities…
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0 0 likes | 33 33 playsBetween the US Capitol Insurrection - broadcast and organized online - and Frances Haugen's revelations about the inner workings of Facebook, 2021 was a rough year…
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0 0 likes | 18 18 playsTheorists of justice have long imagined a decision-maker capable of acting wisely in every circumstance. Policymakers seldom live up to this ideal. They face…
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0 0 likes | 6 6 playsDespite widespread awareness that AI systems may cause harm to marginalized groups—and in spite of a growing number of principles, toolkits, and other resources…
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0 0 likes | 14 14 playsWe are at a watershed moment in the history of information. The internet has given historically underrepresented voices unprecedented access to tools for…
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0 0 likes | 32 32 playsThere is broad agreement about the need for the development and application of AI to be subject to ethical guidelines and constraints. Equally, there is today little…
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0 0 likes | 8 8 playsAlgorithmic Mechanism Design studies the design of algorithms in settings where participants have their own incentives. For example, when executing an ad auction, the…
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0 0 likes | 14 14 playsProblems of algorithmic bias are often framed in terms of lack of representative data or formal fairness optimization constraints to be applied to automated…
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0 0 likes | 24 24 playsWhy are there so many privacy laws and so many privacy professionals but no privacy on the ground? With research based on interviews with scores of tech employees and…
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0 0 likes | 6 6 playsPredicting life outcomes is a challenging task even for advanced machine learning (ML) algorithms. At the same time, accurately predicting these outcomes has important…
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0 0 likes | 6 6 playsWhile recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have greatly enhanced our ability to analyze online text, distilling broad social-oriented research questions…