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HAI Weekly Seminar with Kathleen Creel

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Past
Date
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST/PDT
Topics
Ethics, Equity, Inclusion

The Algorithmic Leviathan: Arbitrariness, Fairness, and Opportunity in Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems

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Celia Clark
celia.clark@stanford.edu

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Automated decision-making systems implemented in public life are typically highly standardized. One algorithmic decision-making system can replace or influence thousands of human deciders. Each of the humans so replaced had their own decision-making criteria: some good, some bad, and some merely arbitrary. Decision-making based on arbitrary criteria is legal in some contexts, such as employment, and not in others, such as criminal sentencing. Where no other right provides a guarantee of non-arbitrary decision-making, is arbitrariness of moral concern?

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Speaker
Kathleen Creel
HAI Network Affiliate; Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, Northeastern University

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