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Beyond "I Can't Help With That": How Child Safety Experts Evaluate AI Chatbot Safety
Hannah Cha, Neha Shukla, Solon Barocas +3
Youth increasingly turn to AI chatbots for social and emotional support, raising concerns about how these systems respond, especially in high-stakes situations. However, existing c…
The Fair Lending Model: How the Longest-Running Algorithmic Fairness Programs Work in Practice
Emily Black, Miranda Bogen, Logan Koepke +3
U.S. financial institutions subject to fair lending laws have been running algorithmic fairness programs for decades. Despite this long history, remarkably little is known about ho…
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…
Effects of Generative AI Errors on User Reliance Across Task Difficulty
Jacy Reese Anthis, Hannah Cha, Solon Barocas +2
The capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) lie along a jagged frontier, where AI systems surprisingly fail on tasks that humans find easy and succeed on tasks that humans fin…
Distinguishing Task-Specific and General-Purpose AI in Regulation
Jennifer Wang, Andrew Selbst, Solon Barocas +1
Over the past decade, policymakers have developed a set of regulatory tools to ensure AI development aligns with key societal goals. Many of these tools were initially developed in…
Rigor in AI: Doing Rigorous AI Work Requires a Broader, Responsible AI-Informed Conception of Rigor
Alexandra Olteanu, Su Lin Blodgett, Agathe Balayn +7
In AI research and practice, rigor remains largely understood in terms of methodological rigor -- such as whether mathematical, statistical, or computational methods are correctly…