A classification of feedback loops and their relation to biases in automated decision-making systems

N Pagan, J Baumann, E Elokda… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Prediction-based decision-making systems are becoming increasingly prevalent in various
domains. Previous studies have demonstrated that such systems are vulnerable to runaway …

Performative prediction: Past and future

M Hardt, C Mendler-Dünner - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.16608, 2023 - arxiv.org
Predictions in the social world generally influence the target of prediction, a phenomenon
known as performativity. Self-fulfilling and self-negating predictions are examples of …

A framework for exploring the consequences of ai-mediated enterprise knowledge access and identifying risks to workers

A Gausen, B Mitra, S Lindley - The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Organisations generate vast amounts of information, which has resulted in a long-term
research effort into knowledge access systems for enterprise settings. Recent developments …

Insights from insurance for fair machine learning

C Fröhlich, RC Williamson - The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We argue that insurance can act as an analogon for the social situatedness of machine
learning systems, hence allowing machine learning scholars to take insights from the rich …

Mapping social choice theory to RLHF

J Dai, E Fleisig - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13038, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent work on the limitations of using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)
to incorporate human preferences into model behavior often raises social choice theory as a …

Fine-Tuning Games: Bargaining and Adaptation for General-Purpose Models

B Laufer, J Kleinberg, H Heidari - Proceedings of the ACM on Web …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) follow a familiar
structure: A firm releases a large, pretrained model. It is designed to be adapted and …

Prediction without Preclusion: Recourse Verification with Reachable Sets

A Kothari, B Kulynych, TW Weng, B Ustun - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Machine learning models are often used to decide who will receive a loan, a job interview,
or a public benefit. Standard techniques to build these models use features about people but …

An engine not a camera: Measuring performative power of online search

C Mendler-Dünner, G Carovano, M Hardt - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The power of digital platforms is at the center of major ongoing policy and regulatory efforts.
To advance existing debates, we designed and executed an experiment to measure the …

The Role of Learning Algorithms in Collective Action

O Ben-Dov, J Fawkes, S Samadi, A Sanyal - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Collective action in Machine Learning is the study of the control that a coordinated group
can have over machine learning algorithms. While previous research has concentrated on …

Automated decision-making as domination

J Burrell - First Monday, 2024 - firstmonday.org
Abstract Machine learning ethics research is demonstrably skewed. Work that defines
fairness as a matter of distribution or allocation and that proposes computationally tractable …