4 papers
A Series of Unfortunate Counterfactual Events: the Role of Time in Counterfactual Explanations
Andrea Ferrario, Michele Loi
Counterfactual explanations are a prominent example of post-hoc interpretability methods in the explainable Artificial Intelligence research domain. They provide individuals with a…
The societal and ethical relevance of computational creativity
Michele Loi, Eleonora Viganò, Lonneke van der Plas
In this paper, we provide a philosophical account of the value of creative systems for individuals and society. We characterize creativity in very broad philosophical terms, encomp…
A blindspot of AI ethics: anti-fragility in statistical prediction
Michele Loi, Lonneke van der Plas
With this paper, we aim to put an issue on the agenda of AI ethics that in our view is overlooked in the current discourse. The current discussions are dominated by topics suchas t…
A Moral Framework for Understanding of Fair ML through Economic Models of Equality of Opportunity
Hoda Heidari, Michele Loi, Krishna P. Gummadi +1
We map the recently proposed notions of algorithmic fairness to economic models of Equality of opportunity (EOP)---an extensively studied ideal of fairness in political philosophy.…