Year: 2020
Type: preprint
Abstract: With the increasing pervasive use of machine learning in social and economic settings, there has been an interest in the notion of machine bias in the AI community. Models trained on historic data reflect biases that exist in society and propagated them to the future through their decisions. There are three prominent metrics of machine fairness used in the community, and it has been shown statistically that it is impossible to satisfy them all at the same time. This has led to an ambiguity with regards to the definition of fairness. In this report, a causal perspective to the impossibility theorem of fairness is presented along with a causal goal for machine fairness.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Saravanakumar, Kailash Karthik
Institution: Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3041909682