After over five years of writing, revising, and occasionally doubting, my article “The Hard Proxy Problem: proxies aren’t intentional; they’re intentional” has been published at Philosophical Studies. It offers a new view on how proxies function in decision-making—human and machine alike.
The hard proxy problem: proxies aren’t intentional; they’re intentional - Philosophical Studies
This paper concerns the proxy problem: often machine learning programs utilize seemingly innocuous features as proxies for socially-sensitive attributes, posing various challenges for the creation of ...
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May 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
After over five years of writing, revising, and occasionally doubting, my article “The Hard Proxy Problem: proxies aren’t intentional; they’re intentional” has been published at Philosophical Studies. It offers a new view on how proxies function in decision-making—human and machine alike.
Looking for an accessible survey of how philosophers are pushing our concept of bias (including implicit bias, explicit bias, algorithmic bias, and inductive bias) forward? Check out this new Phil Compass article: philpapers.org/rec/JOHVOB
Great teaching resource for students too!
Great teaching resource for students too!
Gabbrielle M. Johnson, Varieties of Bias - PhilPapers
The concept of bias is pervasive in both popular discourse and empirical theorizing within philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. This widespread application threatens to render t...
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July 24, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Looking for an accessible survey of how philosophers are pushing our concept of bias (including implicit bias, explicit bias, algorithmic bias, and inductive bias) forward? Check out this new Phil Compass article: philpapers.org/rec/JOHVOB
Great teaching resource for students too!
Great teaching resource for students too!