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ACROCPoLis: a descriptive framework for making sense of fairness
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science. (Responsible Artificial Intelligence)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8423-8029
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0464-3535
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science. (Foundations of Language Processing)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1112-2981
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science. (Foundations of Language Processing)
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2023 (English)In: FAccT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency, ACM Digital Library, 2023, p. 1014-1025Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Fairness is central to the ethical and responsible development and use of AI systems, with a large number of frameworks and formal notions of algorithmic fairness being available. However, many of the fairness solutions proposed revolve around technical considerations and not the needs of and consequences for the most impacted communities. We therefore want to take the focus away from definitions and allow for the inclusion of societal and relational aspects to represent how the effects of AI systems impact and are experienced by individuals and social groups. In this paper, we do this by means of proposing the ACROCPoLis framework to represent allocation processes with a modeling emphasis on fairness aspects. The framework provides a shared vocabulary in which the factors relevant to fairness assessments for different situations and procedures are made explicit, as well as their interrelationships. This enables us to compare analogous situations, to highlight the differences in dissimilar situations, and to capture differing interpretations of the same situation by different stakeholders.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ACM Digital Library, 2023. p. 1014-1025
Keywords [en]
Algorithmic fairness; socio-technical processes; social impact of AI; responsible AI
National Category
Information Systems
Research subject
Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-209705DOI: 10.1145/3593013.3594059ISI: 001062819300088Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85163594710ISBN: 978-1-4503-7252-7 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-209705DiVA, id: diva2:1766810
Conference
2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 12-15, 2023
Available from: 2023-06-13 Created: 2023-06-13 Last updated: 2025-04-24Bibliographically approved
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1. Making fairness actionable
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2024 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[sv]
Att göra rättvisa handlingsbart
Abstract [en]

The opaque nature of machine learning systems has raised concerns about whether these systems can guarantee fairness. In addition, ensuring fair decision-making requires that multiple perspectives of fairness be considered.

Currently, there is no agreement on the definitions, the facilitation of shared interpretation is difficult, and there is a lack of a unified formal language to describe them. Current definitions are implicit in the operationalization of systems, making them difficult to compare.

In this thesis, we discuss how to make fairness actionable, providing concrete tools for that. We provide not only conceptual elements to model and abstract problems of fairness, but also a technical framework and a description language.

Abstract [sv]

Den opaka naturen hos maskininlärningssystem väcker oro kring om dessa system kan garantera rättvisa. Dessutom kräver rättvis beslutsfattande att flera perspektiv på rättvisa beaktas.

För närvarande finns det ingen enighet kring definitionerna, vilket försvårar delad tolkning, och det saknas ett enhetligt formellt språk för att beskriva dem. Nuvarande definitioner är inbyggda i hur systemen används, vilket gör dem svåra att jämföra.

I denna avhandling diskuterar vi hur rättvisa kan göras praktiskt tillämpbar och tillhandahåller konkreta verktyg för detta. Vi erbjuder både konceptuella element för att modellera och abstrahera rättviseproblem samt en teknisk ram och ett beskrivningsspråk.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå: Umeå University, 2024. p. 24
Series
Report / UMINF, ISSN 0348-0542 ; 24.12
Keywords
Algorithmic fairness, Ethics in artificial intelligence, Formal representation of fairness, Formal verification, Functional languages, Human-centered programming languages, Responsible artificial intelligence
National Category
Computer Sciences Software Engineering Ethics
Research subject
Computer Science; Computer Systems; Ethics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-232384 (URN)9789180705356 (ISBN)9789180705349 (ISBN)
Presentation
2024-12-13, MIT.A.121, MIT-huset, Campustorget 5, Umeå, Sweden, 13:00 (English)
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Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP)
Available from: 2024-12-03 Created: 2024-11-28 Last updated: 2024-12-03Bibliographically approved

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