Title
The Responsibility Challenge for Data
Abstract
As data science and artificial intelligence become ubiquitous, they have an increasing impact on society. While many of these impacts are beneficial, others may not be. So understanding and managing these impacts is required of every responsible data scientist. Nevertheless, most human decision-makers use algorithms for efficiency purposes and not to make a better (i.e., fairer) decisions. Even the task of risk assessment in the criminal justice system enables efficiency instead of (and often at the expense of) fairness. So we need to frame the problem with fairness, and other societal impacts, as primary objectives. In this context, most attention has been paid to the machine learning of a model for a task, such as recognition, prediction, or classification. However, issues arise in all parts of the data eco-system, from data acquisition to data presentation. For example, the majority of the population is not white and male, yet this demographic is over-represented in the training data. It is challenging for a data scientist to satisfactorily discharge this broad responsibility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3299869.3314327
Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Management of Data
Field
DocType
ISBN
Training set,Data science,Population,Computer science,Data acquisition,Data presentation,Risk assessment,Criminal justice,Database
Conference
978-1-4503-5643-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
H. V. Jagadish1111412495.67
Francesco Bonchi24173200.47
Tina Eliassi-Rad31597108.63
Lise Getoor44365320.21
P. Krishna Gummadi57961511.50
Stoyanovich Julia634136.67