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Proactive Moderation of Online Discussions: Existing Practices and the Potential for Algorithmic Support
Charlotte Schluger, Jonathan P. Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil +1
To address the widespread problem of uncivil behavior, many online discussion platforms employ human moderators to take action against objectionable content, such as removing it or…
An Uncommon Task: Participatory Design in Legal AI
Fernando Delgado, Solon Barocas, Karen Levy
Despite growing calls for participation in AI design, there are to date few empirical studies of what these processes look like and how they can be structured for meaningful engage…
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…
Algorithms and Decision-Making in the Public Sector
Karen Levy, Kyla Chasalow, Sarah Riley
This article surveys the use of algorithmic systems to support decision-making in the public sector. Governments adopt, procure, and use algorithmic systems to support their functi…
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…