A Legal Approach to “Affirmative Algorithms”

In a new paper by Ho and Alice Xiang, the head of Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Research at the Partnership on AI, a research group that focuses on responsible AI, the authors warn that many of the strategies for increasing fairness clash directly with the high court’s push for “anti-classification.” That’s the principle of remaining “blind” toward categories like race, gender, or religion.