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

Date: 2024-10-24 Thu 00:00

Author: Anthony Rossi

Created: 2024-10-25 Fri 16:04