Algorithms of Oppression

By K. MacLeod. 2021

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Subfields: Hardware and Architecture, Safety, Robustness & Interpretability

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Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models (2021, background): “…applications ranging from diagnostic healthcare algorithms (Obermeyer et al., 2019) to social outcome prediction (Narayanan, 2021); for a more general introduction see (Chouldechova and Roth, 2018; Kordzadeh and Ghasemaghaei, 2021; Mehrabi et al., 2021; Noble, 2018; Zou and Schiebinger, 2018).”
Measuring Data (2022, background): “In fact, assessments are often tied to shifting power dynamics involving implicit discrimination and limiting resources and can be used to justify the usage of algorithms as mechanisms of oppression (Noble, 2018).”
You reap what you sow: On the Challenges of Bias Evaluation Under Multilingual Settings (2022, neutral): “, 2019), sociolinguistics (Labov, 1986; 093 Cheshire, 2007), and critical race theory (Noble, 2018; 094 Benjamin, 2019).”
How Platform-User Power Relations Shape Algorithmic Accountability: A Case Study of Instant Loan Platforms and Financially Stressed Users in India (2022, background): “and fairer decisions than their human counterparts [45, 52], they could also produce harmful outcomes, worsening inequality in society [20, 23, 50, 54, 92, 94, 98].”
Critical Race Theory for HCI (2020, background): “Much of this work notes how offline racism is reflected and reinforced online [10, 89].”
Sociotechnical Harms: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (2022, background): “People marginalized in society face numerous explicit and implicit stereotypes conveyed in various forms of data [147], codingschema [137], and design choices [30] that drive algorithmic systems.”
Easily Accessible Text-to-Image Generation Amplifies Demographic Stereotypes at Large Scale (2022, background): “Further, the Stable Diffusion model makes these errors even when such photos clearly exist on the web: even Google Image Search—which in the past has sparked controversy for its reproduction of societal bias (Noble, 2018; Metaxa et al., 2021; Singh et al., 2020)— is capable of showing us, upon searc”
Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (2022, methodology): “This harm sub-type was also popularized by Safiya Noble in Algorithms of Oppression [156].”