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Desmond Upton Patton, associate dean for Innovation and Academic Affairs, founding director of the SAFE Lab and codirector of the Justice, Equity and Technology (JET) Studio at Columbia School of […]
Face recognition technology is a special menace to privacy, racial justice, free expression, and information security. Our faces are unique identifiers, and most of us expose them everywhere we go. […]
By Adam SchwartzIn recent years, police and prosecutors have implemented social media in a host of new ways to investigate and prosecute crimes. Social media, after all, contains a wealth of information—and […]
By Jeffrey Lane and Fanny A. RamirezMaybe it’s a cliché—I think I’ve used it myself—to say that scientists’ and philosophers’ explanations for how the brain works tend to metaphorically track the most advanced technology of their […]
By Author on SourceNew Orleans has spent millions to expand its police surveillance powers in recent years, providing the city with an unprecedented ability to monitor public spaces and track individuals. Similar mass […]
By Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline SindersWinnie YoeWhat does it mean to be fair?
What does it mean for an algorithm to be biased? In U.S. law, unintentional bias is encoded via disparate impact, which occurs when a selection process has widely different outcomes […]
Predictive policing systems are increasingly used to determine how to allocate police across a city in order to best prevent crime. Discovered crime data (e.g., arrest counts) are used to […]
A key goal of the fair-ML community is to develop machine-learning based systems that, once introduced into a social context, can achieve social and legal outcomes such as fairness, justice, […]
Computers are increasingly used to make decisions that have significant impact on people’s lives. Often, these predictions can affect different population subgroups disproportionately. As a result, the issue of fairness […]
Sorelle Friedler is an associate professor of computer science at Haverford College and an affiliate at the Data & Society Research Institute. Her research focuses on the fairness and interpretability […]