The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair

Once in a while, a person can take an abstract concept that’s seemingly too vague for formal study and offer an elegant formal definition. Claude Shannon did it with information, and Andrey Kolmogorov did it with randomness. For the past few years, researchers have been trying to do the same for the concept of fairness in machine learning. Unfortunately, this has been trickier. Not only is the…

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