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Sociotechnical Audits: Broadening the Algorithm Auditing Lens to Investigate Targeted Advertising
Michelle S. Lam, Ayush Pandit, Colin H. Kalicki +3
Algorithm audits are powerful tools for studying black-box systems. While very effective in examining technical components, the method stops short of a sociotechnical frame, which…
Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions
Chenyan Jia, Michelle S. Lam, Minh Chau Mai +2
Can we design artificial intelligence (AI) systems that rank our social media feeds to consider democratic values such as mitigating partisan animosity as part of their objective f…
Model Sketching: Centering Concepts in Early-Stage Machine Learning Model Design
Michelle S. Lam, Zixian Ma, Anne Li +4
Machine learning practitioners often end up tunneling on low-level technical details like model architectures and performance metrics. Could early model development instead focus o…