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For those that don't know, "this applied to criminality" already exists and has some problems. Propublica wrote a story criticizing it's use: https://www.propu
by koube 10y ago
For those that don't know, "this applied to criminality" already exists and has some problems.
Propublica wrote a story criticizing it's use:
https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
The company responded with a rebuttal:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2998391-ProPublica-Commentary-Final-070616.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2998391-ProPublica-C...
And Propublica has a counter-rebuttal:
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-responds-to-companys-critique-of-machine-bias-story https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-responds-to-co...
- aub3bhat 10y agoPropublica has an "interesting" definition of "fairness". It turns out there is a beautiful mathematical result that shows that the different definitions of "fairness" are inherently incompatible with each other and cannot be satisfied at the same time. This is the best article that summarizes the controversy on this subject: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/17/can-an-algorithm-be-racist-our-analysis-is-more-cautious-than-propublicas/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/1... Paper by Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil M. and Manish Raghavan on this topic https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807
- thwee 10y agoWhat happens where these kinds of models are the reason for suicidal thoughts or criminality?