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48 results for individual ethics

New framework for contesting algorithmic decisions, not just explaining them.

problem Helping individuals review and correct erroneous algorithmic decisions.
method Operationalized contestability as a natural complement to explainable AI (XAI), identifying three types of evidence for reversal.
result Existing EU legislation already grants individuals legal rights to contest algorithmic decisions.

This paper argues that the fundamental principle of contemporary financial economics is balanced reciprocity, not the principle of utility maximisation that is important in economics more generally. The argument is developed by analysing the mathematical Fundamental Theory of Asset Pricing with reference to the emergen…

2013-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

A successful response to climate change needs vast investments in low-carbon research, energy, and sustainable development. Governments can drive research, provide environmental regulation, and accelerate global development, but the necessary low-carbon investments of 2-3% GDP have yet to materialise. A new strategy to…

2018-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper evaluates the importance of monotonicity in AI fairness across various fields.

problem Ensuring fairness in AI applications across criminology, education, health care, and finance.
method Theoretical reasoning, simulation, and extensive empirical analysis of monotonic neural additive models (MNAMs).
result Monotonicity is essential for fairness in AI ethics and society, especially in criminology, education, health care, and finance.

New approach to optimal income tax theory tackles inequity issues.

problem Optimal tax schedules often lead to minimal tax rates for higher earners, contradicting ethical practices.
method Developed a theorem for piecewise-linear environment and introduced a new utility function parameter.
result New approach leads to more equitable tax schedules, interpreting optimality criteria easily.

A new financial system with ethics risk modeled using fractional calculus.

problem Modeling financial systems with ethical considerations and market confidence.
method Introduced a five-dimensional conformable derivative financial system and a discretization scheme.
result Numerical solutions of the conformable derivative system were tested for hyperchaos.

The paper investigates ethical issues in large image datasets, focusing on pornographic content.

problem Ethical issues in large-scale computer vision datasets, particularly concerning pornographic content.
method Cross-sectional model-based quantitative census covering various factors in the ImageNet-ILSVRC-2012 dataset.
result The dataset contains verifiably pornographic images, including non-consensual and voyeuristic content.

This paper presents the contemporary Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing as being equivalent to approaches to pricing that emerged before 1700 in the context of Virtue Ethics. This is done by considering the history of science and mathematics in the thirteenth and seventeenth century. An explanation as to why these ap…

2012-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows model uncertainty is crucial for medical predictions, especially for individual patients.

problem Uncertainty in medical predictions, especially for individual patients.
method Used RNN ensembles and various Bayesian RNNs to analyze model uncertainty.
result RNNs with only Bayesian embeddings are more efficient for capturing model uncertainty.

Machine learning can impact people with legal or ethical consequences when it is used to automate decisions in areas such as insurance, lending, hiring, and predictive policing. In many of these scenarios, previous decisions have been made that are unfairly biased against certain subpopulations, for example those of a …

2017-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Investors prioritize ESG in crypto-assets, showing higher exposure than traditional assets.

problem Understanding ESG preferences in crypto-assets and their investment behavior.
method A representative household finance survey in Austria to examine ESG preferences and crypto-investment exposure.
result ESG-conscious investors have higher exposure to crypto-assets compared to traditional asset classes.

This work surveys algorithmic recourse, aiming to clarify definitions and solutions.

problem Providing explanations and recommendations to individuals affected by automated decisions.
method Literature review and unified definitions, formulations, and solutions.
result Unified definitions and solutions for algorithmic recourse.

20 questions to improve AI research transparency, replicability, ethics, and effectiveness.

problem Lack of transparency, replicability, ethical concerns, and effectiveness in AI research.
method Presenting 20 questions to guide project planning and post-hoc evaluation.
result Facilitating a discussion to develop an international consensus framework.

New method reduces indirect discrimination in insurance risk models.

problem Indirect discrimination in insurance risk models using machine learning.
method Mathematical concepts of linear algebra to reduce indirect discrimination.
result Demonstrated promising performance in a concrete case of risk selection in life insurance.

Hierarchical analysis is considered and a multilevel model is presented in order to explore causality, chance and complexity in financial economics. A coupled system of models is used to describe multilevel interactions, consistent with market data: the lowest level is occupied by agents generating the prices of indivi…

2014-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning conferences face ethical issues in review process.

problem Ethical issues in the review process of machine learning conferences.
method Study of recruitment issues, double-blind process infringements, fraudulent behaviors, biases, and appendix phenomenon.
result Highlighting the need for awareness in the machine learning community.

LLM sandbox and persona dynamics create unethical reality gaps that shift risk to users.

problem Ethical issues arise from LLMs generating reality gaps that shift risk to uninformed users.
method Analyzes the ethical implications of LLM sandbox and persona dynamics, comparing them to financial regulation and compliance.
result Active generation of reality gaps is unethical as it shifts epistemic risk to users.

AI enhances financial services but humans are irreplaceable for empathy, presence, and ethics.

problem AI's limitations in financial services, especially with small datasets and human judgment.
method EPOCH framework highlighting five irreplaceable human capabilities: Empathy, Presence, Opinion, Creativity, and Hope.
result Humans are essential for trust, innovation, and consumer experience in financial services.

Collecting the large datasets needed to train deep neural networks can be very difficult, particularly for the many applications for which sharing and pooling data is complicated by practical, ethical, or legal concerns. However, it may be the case that derivative datasets or predictive models developed within individu…

2018-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning practitioners are often ambivalent about the ethical aspects of their products. We believe anything that gets us from that current state to one in which our systems are achieving some degree of fairness is an improvement that should be welcomed. This is true even when that progress does not get us 100%…

2018-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

FairTrade uses variational inference to create fair predictions in causal models.

problem Creating fair predictions in machine learning models with causal reasoning.
method FairTrade uses variational inference to account for unobserved confounders and integrates fairness constraints on causal paths.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of FairTrade in creating fair predictions in both simulated and real-world datasets.

Proposes methods for learning optimal dynamic treatment regimes robust to unconfoundedness violations.

problem Estimating optimal dynamic treatment regimes using historical observational data when unconfoundedness is violated.
method Utilizes proximal causal inference framework to propose three nonparametric identification methods, a (K+1)-robust method, and establish a semiparametric efficiency bound.
result Establishes the (K+1)-robust method for learning optimal dynamic treatment regimes, validating its efficiency and multiple robustness through numerical experiments.

Machine learning uses crowdworkers; determining their status as human subjects is tricky.

problem Determining the appropriate status of ML crowdworkers as human subjects.
method Investigation of natural language processing studies to expose challenges and propose solutions.
result Potential loophole in the U.S. Common Rule for ML research oversight.

Paper reinterprets marginal productivity theory using vectorial products, challenging traditional ethical interpretations.

problem Challenges traditional ethical interpretations of marginal productivity theory.
method Formulates marginal productivity theory using vectorial marginal products, contrasting with traditional scalar approach.
result Vectorial marginal products conflict with traditional distributive shares picture of property.

Model predicts counterfactuals under domain shift and inaccessible variables.

problem Runtime domain corruption impairs counterfactual prediction.
method Subsumes counterfactual prediction under domain adaptation, uses adversarial domain adaptation to reduce distribution disparity.
result VEGAN outperforms baselines in individual-level treatment effect estimation.

AI models forget statistics' lesson: correlation doesn't imply causation.

problem AI models often produce flawed causal models due to ignoring correlation vs causation.
method Demonstrates examples of flawed AI models and proposes rethinking core models.
result Current efforts to make AI models ethical are insufficient.