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Scarcity and Predictive Uncertainty: Implications for Societal Resource Allocation
Shafkat Farabi, Patrick J. Fowler, Sanmay Das
An emerging literature examines the critical question of when and how prediction can be useful in allocating scarce societal resources. We examine a novel variant of this question:…
Can LLMs Rank? A Tale of Triads and Triage
Gaurab Pokharel, Shafkat Farabi, Patrick J. Fowler +1
From housing allocation for households experiencing homelessness to triage in emergency departments, LLMs are increasingly being considered as judges of consequential decisions tha…
SMaRT: Online Reusable Resource Assignment and an Application to Mediation in the Kenyan Judiciary
Shafkat Farabi, Didac Marti Pinto, Wei Lu +4
Motivated by the problem of assigning mediators to cases in the Kenyan judicial system, we study an online resource allocation problem where incoming tasks (cases) must be immediat…
Street-Level AI: Are Large Language Models Ready for Real-World Judgments?
Gaurab Pokharel, Shafkat Farabi, Patrick J. Fowler +1
A surge of recent work explores the ethical and societal implications of large-scale AI models that make "moral" judgments. Much of this literature focuses either on alignment with…