Understanding Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities for User-Engaged Algorithm Auditing in Industry Practice

WH Deng, B Guo, A Devrio, H Shen, M Eslami… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen growing interest among both researchers and practitioners in user-
engaged approaches to algorithm auditing, which directly engage users in detecting …

Toward User-Driven Algorithm Auditing: Investigating users' strategies for uncovering harmful algorithmic behavior

A DeVos, A Dhabalia, H Shen, K Holstein… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recent work in HCI suggests that users can be powerful in surfacing harmful algorithmic
behaviors that formal auditing approaches fail to detect. However, it is not well understood …

Participation and Division of Labor in User-Driven Algorithm Audits: How Do Everyday Users Work together to Surface Algorithmic Harms?

R Li, S Kingsley, C Fan, P Sinha, N Wai, J Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have witnessed an interesting phenomenon in which users come together to
interrogate potentially harmful algorithmic behaviors they encounter in their everyday lives …

Closing the AI accountability gap: Defining an end-to-end framework for internal algorithmic auditing

ID Raji, A Smart, RN White, M Mitchell… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Rising concern for the societal implications of artificial intelligence systems has inspired a
wave of academic and journalistic literature in which deployed systems are audited for harm …

Who Audits the Auditors? Recommendations from a field scan of the algorithmic auditing ecosystem

S Costanza-Chock, ID Raji, J Buolamwini - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Algorithmic audits (or 'AI audits') are an increasingly popular mechanism for algorithmic
accountability; however, they remain poorly defined. Without a clear understanding of audit …

End-user audits: A system empowering communities to lead large-scale investigations of harmful algorithmic behavior

MS Lam, ML Gordon, D Metaxa, JT Hancock… - proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Because algorithm audits are conducted by technical experts, audits are necessarily limited
to the hypotheses that experts think to test. End users hold the promise to expand this …

Outsider oversight: Designing a third party audit ecosystem for ai governance

ID Raji, P Xu, C Honigsberg, D Ho - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Much attention has focused on algorithmic audits and impact assessments to hold
developers and users of algorithmic systems accountable. But existing algorithmic …

Everyday algorithm auditing: Understanding the power of everyday users in surfacing harmful algorithmic behaviors

H Shen, A DeVos, M Eslami, K Holstein - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
A growing body of literature has proposed formal approaches to audit algorithmic systems
for biased and harmful behaviors. While formal auditing approaches have been greatly …

A framework for assurance audits of algorithmic systems

K Lam, B Lange, B Blili-Hamelin, J Davidovic… - The 2024 ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
An increasing number of regulations propose 'AI audits' as a mechanism for achieving
transparency and accountability for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Despite some …

The algorithm audit: Scoring the algorithms that score us

S Brown, J Davidovic, A Hasan - Big Data & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, the ethical impact of AI has been increasingly scrutinized, with public
scandals emerging over biased outcomes, lack of transparency, and the misuse of data. This …