4 papers
The Paradox of Prioritization in Public Sector Algorithms
Erina Seh-Young Moon, Shion Guha
Public sector agencies perform the critical task of implementing the redistributive role of the State by acting as the leading provider of critical public services that many rely o…
Fairness Audits of Institutional Risk Models in Deployed ML Pipelines
Kelly McConvey, Dipto Das, Maya Ghai +3
Fairness audits of institutional risk models are critical for understanding how deployed machine learning pipelines allocate resources. Drawing on multi-year collaboration with Cen…
Bureaucratic Silences: What the Canadian AI Register Reveals, Omits, and Obscures
Dipto Das, Christelle Tessono, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed +1
In November 2025, the Government of Canada operationalized its commitment to transparency by releasing its first Federal AI Register. In this paper, we argue that such registers ar…
Bridging Prediction and Intervention Problems in Social Systems
Lydia T. Liu, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Angela Zhou +32
Many automated decision systems (ADS) are designed to solve prediction problems -- where the goal is to learn patterns from a sample of the population and apply them to individuals…