Fair Enough? A map of the current limitations of the requirements to have "fair" algorithms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12435v2
• Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 08:45:26 GMT
• Title: Fair Enough? A map of the current limitations of the requirements to have "fair" algorithms
• Authors: Alessandro Castelnovo, Nicole Inverardi, Gabriele Nanino, Ilaria Giuseppina Penco, Daniele Regoli
• Abstract summary: Automated Decision-Making systems can perpetuate or even amplifying bias and unjust disparities. It has prompted more and more layers of society, including policy makers, to call for "fair" algorithms. There is a hiatus between what the society is demanding from Automated Decision-Making systems, and what this demand actually means in real-world scenarios.
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• Abstract: In the recent years, the raise in the usage and efficiency of Artificial Intelligence and, more in general, of Automated Decision-Making systems has brought with it an increasing and welcome awareness of the risks associated with such systems. One of such risks is that of perpetuating or even amplifying bias and unjust disparities present in the data from which many of these systems learn to adjust and optimise their decisions. This awareness has on one side encouraged several scientific communities to come up with more and more appropriate ways and methods to assess, quantify, and possibly mitigate such biases and disparities. On the other hand, it has prompted more and more layers of society, including policy makers, to call for "fair" algorithms. We believe that while a lot of excellent and multidisciplinary research is currently being conducted, what is still fundamentally missing is the awareness that having "fair" algorithms is per se a nearly meaningless requirement, that needs to be complemented with a lot of additional societal choices to become actionable. Namely, there is a hiatus between what the society is demanding from Automated Decision-Making systems, and what this demand actually means in real-world scenarios. In this work, we outline the key features of such a hiatus, and pinpoint a list of fundamental ambiguities and attention points that we as a society must address in order to give a concrete meaning to the increasing demand of fairness in Automated Decision-Making systems.

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