Group Ethic Memo & Unfair Dist Alg Error
Table of Contents
1. Group Ethics Memo
In a group write a ethical analysis of a piece of technology.
Memo
These headings in order
- Headline
- URL
- Date of the story
- Summary of technology(1 paragraph)
- Benefits of technolgy(1 - 2 paragraph)
- Risk of technology (1 - 2 paragraphs)
- Evaluation
- Evaluate the risks and determine how important they are
2. Unfair Distrubution of Risks of Algorithmic Error
Case: COMPAS recidivsism risk prediction algorithm
COMPAS generates a probability of re-arrest -> Assigns a risk of 1 to 10 -> Sorts into high, medium, or low risk.
Turns out it was making twice as much false positive for black people as it was for white people.
2.1. Group Activity: balancing precision and recall
Application to decide who will win a sports game
FP: team favored to win the game loses FN: team favored to lose the game loses
Determine if your liabile in a car crash through a dash cam
FP: Determined that you were liable but you werent FN: Determined that you werent liable but you were
worst: FN
1 FN : 1 FP