After over five years of writing, revising, and occasionally doubting, my article “The Hard Proxy Problem: proxies aren’t intentional; they’re intentional” has been published at Philosophical Studies. It offers a new view on how proxies function in decision-making—human and machine alike.
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The hard proxy problem: proxies aren’t intentional; they’re intentional - Philosophical Studies
This paper concerns the proxy problem: often machine learning programs utilize seemingly innocuous features as proxies for socially-sensitive attributes, posing various challenges for the creation of ...
