FAIRTOPIA: Envisioning Multi-Agent Guardianship for Disrupting Unfair AI Pipelines

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09107v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:02:43 GMT
• Title: FAIRTOPIA: Envisioning Multi-Agent Guardianship for Disrupting Unfair AI Pipelines
• Authors: Athena Vakali, Ilias Dimitriadis,
• Abstract summary: AI models have become active decision makers, often acting without human supervision.<n>We envision agents as fairness guardians, since agents learn from their environment.<n>We introduce a fairness-by-design approach which embeds multi-role agents in an end-to-end (human to AI) synergetic scheme.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: AI models have become active decision makers, often acting without human supervision. The rapid advancement of AI technology has already caused harmful incidents that have hurt individuals and societies and AI unfairness in heavily criticized. It is urgent to disrupt AI pipelines which largely neglect human principles and focus on computational biases exploration at the data (pre), model(in), and deployment (post) processing stages. We claim that by exploiting the advances of agents technology, we will introduce cautious, prompt, and ongoing fairness watch schemes, under realistic, systematic, and human-centric fairness expectations. We envision agents as fairness guardians, since agents learn from their environment, adapt to new information, and solve complex problems by interacting with external tools and other systems. To set the proper fairness guardrails in the overall AI pipeline, we introduce a fairness-by-design approach which embeds multi-role agents in an end-to-end (human to AI) synergetic scheme. Our position is that we may design adaptive and realistic AI fairness frameworks, and we introduce a generalized algorithm which can be customized to the requirements and goals of each AI decision making scenario. Our proposed, so called FAIRTOPIA framework, is structured over a three-layered architecture, which encapsulates the AI pipeline inside an agentic guardian and a knowledge-based, self-refining layered scheme. Based on our proposition, we enact fairness watch in all of the AI pipeline stages, under robust multi-agent workflows, which will inspire new fairness research hypothesis, heuristics, and methods grounded in human-centric, systematic, interdisciplinary, socio-technical principles.

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