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How Machine Learning Pushes Us to Define Fairness

Along with the growth of AI have come serious questions about our ability to build unbiased, fair algorithms. And its true that without intervention, machine learning algorithms will reflect any biases in the underlying data. But preciselybecause ML requires us to instruct it in highly precise ways about what sort of outcomes well find ethically acceptable,its also giving us the tools to have these discussions in clearer and more productive ways. Were defining a whole new vocabulary and set of concepts to talk about fairness.

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