Certifying and Removing Disparate Impact

• DOI: 10.1145/2783258.2783311
• Publication Date: 2015-08-07T15:38:27Z
• Authors: Michael Feldman; Sorelle A. Friedler; John Moeller; Carlos Scheidegger; Suresh Venkatasub...
• Keywords: Disparate impact

What does it mean for an algorithm to be biased? In U.S. law, unintentional bias is encoded via disparate impact, which occurs when a selection process has widely different outcomes groups, even as appears neutral. This legal determination hinges on definition of protected class (ethnicity, gender) and explicit description the process.