OT: Discrimination by algorithm

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interesting discussion here (blog itself misses the point)

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/alien_intelligences_and_discriminatory_algorithms.html

In insurance applications that I was reading recently, one of the requirements on the algorithms was that you can "sell" them to the regulators, and you need to show that it only does permitted kinds of discrimination.

E.g. try to get health insurance in a private market with a pre-existing condition. Add detection based on genetic screening after your baby is born.

(Application denied. The neural network predicts that your family is much too expensive.)

Josef

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parking another reference

Belle, Vanya M. C. A. Van, Ben Van Calster, Dirk Timmerman, Tom Bourne, Cecilia Bottomley, Lil Valentin, Patrick Neven, Sabine Van Huffel, Johan A. K. Suykens, and Stephen Boyd. 2012. “A Mathematical Model for Interpretable Clinical Decision Support with Applications in Gynecology.” PLOS ONE 7 (3): e34312. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034312.

simplifying models so they can be used in the field

looks interesting based on abstract

Josef

 

Josef