Search Results for author: Benjamin Laufer

Found 7 papers, 0 papers with code

Strategic Evaluation: Subjects, Evaluators, and Society

no code implementations5 Oct 2023 Benjamin Laufer, Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy, Helen Nissenbaum

Machine learning literature on strategic behavior has tried to describe these dynamics by emphasizing the efforts expended by decision subjects hoping to obtain a more favorable assessment -- some works offer ways to preempt or prevent such manipulations, some differentiate 'gaming' from 'improvement' behavior, while others aim to measure the effort burden or disparate effects of classification systems.

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

no code implementations8 Aug 2023 Benjamin Laufer, Jon Kleinberg, Hoda Heidari

Both entities are profit-seeking and incur costs when they invest in the technology, and they must reach a bargaining agreement on how to share the revenue for the technology to reach the market.

Optimization's Neglected Normative Commitments

no code implementations27 May 2023 Benjamin Laufer, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Helen Nissenbaum

Optimization is offered as an objective approach to resolving complex, real-world decisions involving uncertainty and conflicting interests.

Collective Obfuscation and Crowdsourcing

no code implementations12 Aug 2022 Benjamin Laufer, Niko A. Grupen

Crowdsourcing technologies rely on groups of people to input information that may be critical for decision-making.

Decision Making

Accountability in an Algorithmic Society: Relationality, Responsibility, and Robustness in Machine Learning

no code implementations10 Feb 2022 A. Feder Cooper, Emanuel Moss, Benjamin Laufer, Helen Nissenbaum

In 1996, Accountability in a Computerized Society [95] issued a clarion call concerning the erosion of accountability in society due to the ubiquitous delegation of consequential functions to computerized systems.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Philosophy

Feedback Effects in Repeat-Use Criminal Risk Assessments

no code implementations28 Nov 2020 Benjamin Laufer

We show through simulation that risk can propagate over sequential decisions in ways that are not captured by one-shot tests.

Fairness

Compounding Injustice: History and Prediction in Carceral Decision-Making

no code implementations18 May 2020 Benjamin Laufer

Risk assessment algorithms in criminal justice put people's lives at the discretion of a simple statistical tool.

Computers and Society Applications 62M20 (Primary), 62L10 (Secondary), 68U99 (Secondary) K.4.1; K.5.2; G.3; I.6.5; J.4; J.1; F.0

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