Bias on demand: a modelling framework that generates synthetic data with bias

J Baumann, A Castelnovo, R Crupi… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, Machine Learning (ML) systems are widely used in various businesses and are
increasingly being adopted to make decisions that can significantly impact people's lives …

Group fairness: Independence revisited

T Räz - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM conference on fairness …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper critically examines arguments against independence, a measure of group
fairness also known as statistical parity and as demographic parity. In recent discussions of …

Fairness and risk: an ethical argument for a group fairness definition insurers can use

J Baumann, M Loi - Philosophy & Technology, 2023 - Springer
Algorithmic predictions are promising for insurance companies to develop personalized risk
models for determining premiums. In this context, issues of fairness, discrimination, and …

Distributive justice as the foundational premise of fair ML: Unification, extension, and interpretation of group fairness metrics

J Baumann, C Hertweck, M Loi, C Heitz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.02897, 2022 - arxiv.org
Group fairness metrics are an established way of assessing the fairness of prediction-based
decision-making systems. However, these metrics are still insufficiently linked to …

Group fairness in prediction-based decision making: From moral assessment to implementation

J Baumann, C Heitz - 2022 9th Swiss Conference on Data …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring fairness of prediction-based decision making is based on statistical group fairness
criteria. Which one of these criteria is the morally most appropriate one depends on the …

The fairness in algorithmic fairness

S Holm - Res Publica, 2023 - Springer
With the increasing use of algorithms in high-stakes areas such as criminal justice and
health has come a significant concern about the fairness of prediction-based decision …

Rawlsnet: Altering bayesian networks to encode rawlsian fair equality of opportunity

D Liu, Z Shafi, W Fleisher, T Eliassi-Rad… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present RAWLSNET, a system for altering Bayesian Network (BN) models to satisfy the
Rawlsian principle of fair equality of opportunity (FEO). RAWLSNET's BN models generate …

Gradual (in) compatibility of fairness criteria

C Hertweck, T Räz - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Impossibility results show that important fairness measures (independence, separation,
sufficiency) cannot be satisfied at the same time under reasonable assumptions. This paper …

On prediction-modelers and decision-makers: why fairness requires more than a fair prediction model

T Scantamburlo, J Baumann, C Heitz - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
An implicit ambiguity in the field of prediction-based decision-making concerns the relation
between the concepts of prediction and decision. Much of the literature in the field tends to …

Bias and fairness in machine learning and artificial intelligence

D Cirillo, MJ Rementeria - Sex and gender bias in technology and artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sex and gender biases can be entrenched in the life cycle of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
development, from data acquisition to technological design and deployment. AI systems that …