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Re:There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’ by cmendel on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:59AM (#23210172)
Right; however, the problem is that ML is generally pretty good at finding underlying patterns in data, so even if you make an algorithm race-blind it can still construct a dummy variable that is effectively race.

Unfortunately, it does this by codifying pre-existant social outcomes which are often not free of bias.

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Re:There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’ by RobPfeifer on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:03AM (#23210192)
This is why disparate impact backtesting and go-forward monitoring should be done on all credit model releases
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