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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…
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…
Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships
Jess Hohenstein, Dominic DiFranzo, Rene F. Kizilcec +6
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now widely used to facilitate social interaction, but its impact on social relationships and communication is not well understood. We study the soci…
Representativeness in Statistics, Politics, and Machine Learning
Kyla Chasalow, Karen Levy
Representativeness is a foundational yet slippery concept. Though familiar at first blush, it lacks a single precise meaning. Instead, meanings range from typical or characteristic…