What we owe to decision-subjects: beyond transparency and explanation in automated decision-making.

The ongoing explosion of interest in artificial intelligence is fueled in part by recently developed techniques in machine learning. Those techniques allow automated systems to process huge amounts of data, utilizing mathematical methods that depart from traditional statistical approaches, and resul...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Studies Vol. 182; no. 1; pp. 55 - 86
Autores principales: Grant, David Gray, Behrends, Jeff, Basl, John
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jan2025
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          https://ror.org/02y3ad647 University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
          https://ror.org/02yxdv803 Jain Family Institute, New York, USA
          https://ror.org/03vek6s52 Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
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        Artificial intelligence
        Decision making
        Machine learning
        Data
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        Explanation
        Interpretability
        Mathematical Sciences Statistics Information and Computing Sciences Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
        Opacity
        Right to explanation
        Transparency
      ab: The ongoing explosion of interest in artificial intelligence is fueled in part by recently developed techniques in machine learning. Those techniques allow automated systems to process huge amounts of data, utilizing mathematical methods that depart from traditional statistical approaches, and resulting in impressive advancements in our ability to make predictions and uncover correlations across a host of interesting domains. But as is now widely discussed, the way that those systems arrive at their outputs is often opaque, even to the experts who design and deploy them. Is it morally problematic to make use of opaque automated methods when making high-stakes decisions, like whether to issue a loan to an applicant, or whether to approve a parole request? Many scholars answer in the affirmative. However, there is no widely accepted explanation for why transparent systems are morally preferable to opaque systems. We argue that the use of automated decision-making systems sometimes violates duties of consideration that are owed by decision-makers to decision-subjects, duties that are both epistemic and practical in character. Violations of that kind generate a weighty consideration against the use of opaque decision systems. In the course of defending our approach, we show that it is able to address three major challenges sometimes leveled against attempts to defend the moral import of transparency in automated decision-making.
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