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A New Paradigm for Counterfactual Reasoning in Fairness and Recourse
Lucius E. J. Bynum, Joshua R. Loftus, Julia Stoyanovich
Counterfactuals and counterfactual reasoning underpin numerous techniques for auditing and understanding artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The traditional paradigm for counterf…
Counterfactuals for the Future
Lucius E. J. Bynum, Joshua R. Loftus, Julia Stoyanovich
Counterfactuals are often described as 'retrospective,' focusing on hypothetical alternatives to a realized past. This description relates to an often implicit assumption about the…
Causal Reasoning for Algorithmic Fairness
Joshua R. Loftus, Chris Russell, Matt J. Kusner +1
In this work, we argue for the importance of causal reasoning in creating fair algorithms for decision making. We give a review of existing approaches to fairness, describe work in…