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Algorithmic Auditing and Social Justice: Lessons from the History of Audit Studies
Briana Vecchione, Solon Barocas, Karen Levy
Algorithmic audits have been embraced as tools to investigate the functioning and consequences of sociotechnical systems. Though the term is used somewhat loosely in the algorithmi…
Computer Vision and Conflicting Values: Describing People with Automated Alt Text
Margot Hanley, Solon Barocas, Karen Levy +2
Scholars have recently drawn attention to a range of controversial issues posed by the use of computer vision for automatically generating descriptions of people in images. Despite…
On Modeling Human Perceptions of Allocation Policies with Uncertain Outcomes
Hoda Heidari, Solon Barocas, Jon Kleinberg +1
Many policies allocate harms or benefits that are uncertain in nature: they produce distributions over the population in which individuals have different probabilities of incurring…
Designing Disaggregated Evaluations of AI Systems: Choices, Considerations, and Tradeoffs
Solon Barocas, Anhong Guo, Ece Kamar +5
Disaggregated evaluations of AI systems, in which system performance is assessed and reported separately for different groups of people, are conceptually simple. However, their des…
Better Together? How Externalities of Size Complicate Notions of Solidarity and Actuarial Fairness
Kate Donahue, Solon Barocas
Consider a cost-sharing game with players of different contribution to the total cost: an example might be an insurance company calculating premiums for a population of mixed-risk…