no code implementations • 5 Oct 2023 • Benjamin Laufer, Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy, Helen Nissenbaum
Machine learning literature on strategic behavior has tried to describe these dynamics by emphasizing the efforts expended by decision subjects hoping to obtain a more favorable assessment -- some works offer ways to preempt or prevent such manipulations, some differentiate 'gaming' from 'improvement' behavior, while others aim to measure the effort burden or disparate effects of classification systems.
no code implementations • 27 May 2023 • Benjamin Laufer, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Helen Nissenbaum
Optimization is offered as an objective approach to resolving complex, real-world decisions involving uncertainty and conflicting interests.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2022 • A. Feder Cooper, Emanuel Moss, Benjamin Laufer, Helen Nissenbaum
In 1996, Accountability in a Computerized Society [95] issued a clarion call concerning the erosion of accountability in society due to the ubiquitous delegation of consequential functions to computerized systems.
no code implementations • 26 May 2021 • Margot Hanley, Solon Barocas, Karen Levy, Shiri Azenkot, Helen Nissenbaum
In this paper, we investigate the ethical dilemmas faced by companies that have adopted the use of computer vision for producing alt text: textual descriptions of images for blind and low vision people, We use Facebook's automatic alt text tool as our primary case study.
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2020 • Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Nadya Bliss, Helen Nissenbaum, Melanie Moses
Innovations in AI have focused primarily on the questions of "what" and "how"-algorithms for finding patterns in web searches, for instance-without adequate attention to the possible harms (such as privacy, bias, or manipulation) and without adequate consideration of the societal context in which these systems operate.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2020 • Margot Hanley, Apoorv Khandelwal, Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Noah Snavely, Helen Nissenbaum
Important ethical concerns arising from computer vision datasets of people have been receiving significant attention, and a number of datasets have been withdrawn as a result.