Automated Decision-Making as Domination
Abstract: "Machine learning ethics research is demonstrably skewed. Work that defines fairness as a…
April 14, 2024
Academic article
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Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems
In this paper, authors identify the challenges to integrating fairness into machine learning based…
January 30, 2020
Academic article
Beyond the Rhetoric of Algorithmic Solutionism
D&S founder and president sings praise for Virginia Eubank's new book Automating Inequality: How…
January 11, 2018
Blog post
Points: Transparency ≠ Accountability
D&S founder danah boyd's prepared remarks for a public roundtable in the European Parliament on…
November 29, 2016
Blog post
What is “fairness”?
Fairness is one of those values that Americans love to espouse. It's just as beloved in technical…
September 3, 2014
Blog post