no code implementations • 5 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.
no code implementations • 8 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.
no code implementations • 27 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.
no code implementations • 12 Aug 2022 • Benjamin Laufer, Niko A. Grupen
Crowdsourcing technologies rely on groups of people to input information that may be critical for decision-making.
no code implementations • 10 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.
no code implementations • 28 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.
no code implementations • 18 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