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Algorithmic fairness

failure modes in fair machine learning that come from abstracting away the social context, such as ignoring how a tool is used or treating fairness as purely mathematical.

In algorithmic fairness, abstraction traps refers to failure modes in fair machine learning that come from abstracting away the social context, such as ignoring how a tool is used or treating fairness as purely mathematical. This meaning comes from Selbst (2019) in Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.[1]

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  1. Selbst, A. D., Boyd, D., Friedler, S. A., Venkatasubramanian, S., & Vertesi, J. (2019). Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems. Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287560.3287598

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