Sociotechnical harms of algorithmic systems: Scoping a taxonomy for harm reduction

R Shelby, S Rismani, K Henne, AJ Moon… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Understanding the landscape of potential harms from algorithmic systems enables
practitioners to better anticipate consequences of the systems they build. It also supports the …

Toward situated interventions for algorithmic equity: lessons from the field

M Katell, M Young, D Dailey, B Herman… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Research to date aimed at the fairness, accountability, and transparency of algorithmic
systems has largely focused on topics such as identifying failures of current systems and on …

Harms from increasingly agentic algorithmic systems

A Chan, R Salganik, A Markelius, C Pang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Research in Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) 1 has established
many sources and forms of algorithmic harm, in domains as diverse as health care, finance …

Algorithmic pollution: Making the invisible visible

O Marjanovic, D Cecez-Kecmanovic… - Journal of Information …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we focus on the growing evidence of unintended harmful societal effects of
automated algorithmic decision-making in transformative services (eg social welfare …

Assembling accountability: algorithmic impact assessment for the public interest

E Moss, EA Watkins, R Singh, MC Elish… - Available at SSRN …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract The Algorithmic Impact Assessment is a new concept for regulating algorithmic
systems and protecting the public interest. Assembling Accountability: Algorithmic Impact …

POTs: protective optimization technologies

B Kulynych, R Overdorf, C Troncoso… - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Algorithmic fairness aims to address the economic, moral, social, and political impact that
digital systems have on populations through solutions that can be applied by service …

[PDF][PDF] Technology can't fix algorithmic injustice

A Zimmermann, E Di Rosa, H Kim - Boston Review, 2020 - academia.edu
These are legitimate long-term worries. But they are not all we have to worry about, and
placing them center stage distracts from ethical questions that AI is raising here and now …

Overcoming failures of imagination in AI infused system development and deployment

M Boyarskaya, A Olteanu, K Crawford - arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.13416, 2020 - arxiv.org
NeurIPS 2020 requested that research paper submissions include impact statements on"
potential nefarious uses and the consequences of failure." However, as researchers …

Mitigating bias in algorithmic systems—a fish-eye view

K Orphanou, J Otterbacher, S Kleanthous… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Mitigating bias in algorithmic systems is a critical issue drawing attention across
communities within the information and computer sciences. Given the complexity of the …

Resistance and refusal to algorithmic harms: Varieties of 'knowledge projects'

MI Ganesh, E Moss - Media International Australia, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Industrial, academic, activist, and policy research and advocacy movements formed around
resisting 'machine bias', promoting 'ethical AI', and 'fair ML'have discursive implications for …