Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
I&#x27;ve only had a chance to skim this, so maybe I misunderstood.<p>That being said, the authors&#x27; point seems to be right there in the introduction - &quot;it&#x27;s not fair to hold all individuals to the same standard, irrespective of race.&quot;<p>In other words, the broader community should tolerate laxer pre-trial sentencing standards applied to people of race A, precisely because they commit more crime than people of race B?<p>Pretty odd concept of &quot;fairness&quot; if you ask me.<p>Also interesting that explicitly adjusting for race does not affect recidivism predictions by the COMPAS model. In other words, as it stands, the model is not inadvertently discriminating on the basis of race. I wonder if the same testing has been applied to sentencing decisions.