Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 397 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Algorithmic Fairness
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The idea
Algorithmic fairness is the like-cases requirement at machine scale: a system that scores by proxies can rebuild, in code, exactly the differences that were never relevant.
In practice
Strip the forbidden column and the zip code carries it back in. The consistency test doesn't care whether the special pleading was automated.
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