Using Causal Reasoning To Guide Algorithms Toward a Fairer World — The Ethical Machine

This work considered features whose unfairness rests on a broad ethical consensus. In general, however, there is disagreement on what is fair and unfair. This disagreement is rooted in political, and ultimately ethical disagreement among human beings. Real progress on algorithmic fairness entails not only formalizing human ethical consensus on what is fair and unfair, but explicitly considering, within the marketplace of ideas, differences in our ethical commitments as well.