Promises and Challenges of Causality for Ethical Machine Learning

Focus: AI Ethics/Policy

Source: MAIEI

Readability: Expert

Type: Website Article

Open Source: Yes

External URL: https://montrealethics.ai/promises-and-challenges-of-causality-for-ethical-machine-learning/

Keywords: N/A

Learn Tags: AI and Machine Learning Ethics Research Centre Bias Fairness

Summary: This paper investigates the practical and epistemological challenges of applying causality for fairness evaluation. It focuses on two key aspects: nature and timing of the interventions on sensitive attributes and the impact of this specification on the soundness of the causal analyses.