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Algorithms And Human Freedom, Richard Warner, Robert Sloan
Algorithms And Human Freedom, Richard Warner, Robert Sloan
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Predictive analytics such as data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence drive algorithmic decision making. Its "all-encompassing scope already reaches the very heart of a functioning society". Unfortunately, the legal system and its various tools developed around human decisionmakers cannot adequately administer accountability mechanisms for computer decision making. Antiquated approaches require modernization to bridge the gap between governing human decision making and new technologies. We divide the bridge-building task into three questions. First, what features of the use of predictive analytics significantly contribute to incorrect, unjustified, or unfair outcomes? Second, how should one regulate those features to make outcomes more …
Transparency And Algorithmic Governance, Cary Coglianese, David Lehr
Transparency And Algorithmic Governance, Cary Coglianese, David Lehr
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Machine-learning algorithms are improving and automating important functions in medicine, transportation, and business. Government officials have also started to take notice of the accuracy and speed that such algorithms provide, increasingly relying on them to aid with consequential public-sector functions, including tax administration, regulatory oversight, and benefits administration. Despite machine-learning algorithms’ superior predictive power over conventional analytic tools, algorithmic forecasts are difficult to understand and explain. Machine learning’s “black-box” nature has thus raised concern: Can algorithmic governance be squared with legal principles of governmental transparency? We analyze this question and conclude that machine-learning algorithms’ relative inscrutability does not pose a …