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Statistical Guarantees in the Search for Less Discriminatory Algorithms
Chris Hays, Ben Laufer, Solon Barocas +1
U.S. discrimination law can impose liability on firms that fail to adopt a less discriminatory alternative (LDA): a decision policy that achieves the same business objectives while…
What Constitutes a Less Discriminatory Algorithm?
Benjamin Laufer, Manish Raghavan, Solon Barocas
Disparate impact doctrine offers an important legal apparatus for targeting discriminatory data-driven algorithmic decisions. A recent body of work has focused on conceptualizing o…
Strategic Evaluation: Subjects, Evaluators, and Society
Benjamin Laufer, Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy +1
A broad current application of algorithms is in formal and quantitative measures of murky concepts -- like merit -- to make decisions. When people strategically respond to these so…
Accountability in an Algorithmic Society: Relationality, Responsibility, and Robustness in Machine Learning
A. Feder Cooper, Emanuel Moss, Benjamin Laufer +1
In 1996, Accountability in a Computerized Society [95] issued a clarion call concerning the erosion of accountability in society due to the ubiquitous delegation of consequential f…
Feedback Effects in Repeat-Use Criminal Risk Assessments
Benjamin Laufer
In the criminal legal context, risk assessment algorithms are touted as data-driven, well-tested tools. Studies known as validation tests are typically cited by practitioners to sh…
Compounding Injustice: History and Prediction in Carceral Decision-Making
Benjamin Laufer
Risk assessment algorithms in criminal justice put people's lives at the discretion of a simple statistical tool. This thesis explores how algorithmic decision-making in criminal p…