Value Cards: An Educational Toolkit for Teaching Social Impacts of Machine Learning through Deliberation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11411v2
• Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 08:45:37 GMT
• Title: Value Cards: An Educational Toolkit for Teaching Social Impacts of Machine Learning through Deliberation
• Authors: Hong Shen, Hanwen Wesley Deng, Aditi Chattopadhyay, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Xu Wang, Haiyi Zhu
• Abstract summary: Value Card is an educational toolkit to inform students and practitioners of the social impacts of different machine learning models via deliberation. Our results suggest that the use of the Value Cards toolkit can improve students' understanding of both the technical definitions and trade-offs of performance metrics.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recently, there have been increasing calls for computer science curricula to complement existing technical training with topics related to Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics. In this paper, we present Value Card, an educational toolkit to inform students and practitioners of the social impacts of different machine learning models via deliberation. This paper presents an early use of our approach in a college-level computer science course. Through an in-class activity, we report empirical data for the initial effectiveness of our approach. Our results suggest that the use of the Value Cards toolkit can improve students' understanding of both the technical definitions and trade-offs of performance metrics and apply them in real-world contexts, help them recognize the significance of considering diverse social values in the development of deployment of algorithmic systems, and enable them to communicate, negotiate and synthesize the perspectives of diverse stakeholders. Our study also demonstrates a number of caveats we need to consider when using the different variants of the Value Cards toolkit. Finally, we discuss the challenges as well as future applications of our approach.

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