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Ignacio Cofone

@ignaciocofone.bsky.social
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Prof of Law & Regulation of AI at @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. Books: "The Privacy Fallacy" (2023) "Canadian Privacy Law" (2026). Likes tech, dogs, and sustainable industrial policy

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 22/09/2026
A publishing house in Munich is running scams, according to Google's AI overview. The issue with the allegation: none of it was in any of the sources linked. A court in Germany has now ordered Google to answer for these apparent falsehoods. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social breaks down the case.
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AI Overviews and the Limits of the Search Safe Harbor
A regional court in Germany ordered Google to answer for apparent falsehoods about a Munich publishing house provided by its AI overview feature.
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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#ResponsibleAI Talk Three Models of AI Regulation Speaker: @ignaciocofone.bsky.social, University of Oxford Date: June 20, 2026 Time: 3:30pm (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia@gmail.com
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 30/06/2026
Providers, not regulators, are increasingly setting the standards against which their own AI systems are measured, writes @ignaciocofone.bsky.social (Ignacio Cofone).
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The Handover of AI Standard-Setting
Providers, not regulators, are increasingly setting the standards against which their own AI systems are measured.
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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Finally, in “Inference, Abuse, and the Limits of Privacy Law,” @ignaciocofone.bsky.social highlights how our article “exposes the misalignment between where privacy law places responsibility and where the conditions of harm are actually produced.” www.californialawreview.org/online/infer...
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Inference, Abuse, and the Limits of Privacy Law — California Law Review
Brokering Safety identifies a failure of privacy law: the tendency to allocate responsibility to individuals through opt-out and deletion rights, even as informational harm is generated by distribute...
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Sam Adler @samadler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It is an honor to have not one, not two, but three world class essays responding to Brokering Safety. Go check out @evanselinger.bsky.social & @hartzog.bsky.social, @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, and @ignaciocofone.bsky.social’s essays for @califlrev.bsky.social!
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CDTS | CLTS • uOttawa @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We were delighted to host @ignaciocofone.bsky.social, in conversation with @teresascassa.bsky.social, about his new book " Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Comparative Materials", exploring how legal frameworks are evolving to address the challenges of privacy in the digital age.
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Congrats to @ignaciocofone.bsky.social fone on Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Materials (Emond Publishing), a casebook comprehensively covering Canada’s privacy framework across private law, statutes, and the Charter. Great to see this out! emond.ca/Store/Books/...
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Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Comparative Materials | Emond Publishing
Browse Emond's full collection of books for Canadian law school, college, and university programs, as well as legal practice.
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CDTS | CLTS • uOttawa @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Join us on May 1st for a conversation with @ignaciocofone.bsky.social around his new book Canadian Privacy Law exploring how legal frameworks are evolving to address the challenges of privacy in the digital age. ℹ️/🎟 www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Being on the TED stage has been one of the biggest thrills of my life. My TED talk is live! Please share widely! Predictions can be weapons of power, and we are being much too naive about them, from prediction markets to AI. #Prophecy www.ted.com/talks/cariss...
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Beware the power of prediction
What do the story of Oedipus and your insurance premiums have in common? They are both driven by self-fulfilling prophecies. Philosopher and TED Fellow Carissa Véliz traces the hidden power of predict...
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CDTS | CLTS • uOttawa @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Join us on May 1st for a conversation with @ignaciocofone.bsky.social around his new book Canadian Privacy Law exploring how legal frameworks are evolving to address the challenges of privacy in the digital age. ℹ️/🎟 www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Very glad my paper with Katherine Strandburg, "Algorithmic Opacity as a Principal-Agent Problem," is now forthcoming in the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Algorithmic Opacity as a Principal-Agent Problem
<p><span>Principal-agent problems are central to debates over algorithmic transparency, but have been underexplored. Concerns about gaming and trade secrecy, fr
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Two new articles by ISP fellow @ignaciocofone.bsky.social : The Privacy Paradox Is a Misnomer: Data Under Structural Uncertainty : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... -and- Consent, Design, and Deceit: A Bottom-up Proposal for Regulating Dark Patterns: Link: ssrn.com/abstract=569...
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The Privacy Paradox Is A Misnomer: Data Under Structural Uncertainty
The infamous privacy paradox refers to the apparent inconsistency between people's stated concern for privacy and their readiness to disclose personal informati
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Really glad to see this piece published. Stav does something the control debate in privacy law needed: she disaggregates the critiques, showing they operate at diff levels & the relevant arguments are different. Highly recommend it to anyone with views in favor or against control/consent in privacy
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Thrilled that Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Comparative Materials is now published by Emond. It comes out of six years of teaching Privacy Law at McGill and it's the first casebook to cover Canadian Privacy Law as a whole, integrating torts, statutes, criminal law, and constitutional law
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
At this week’s Ideas Lunch, we were delighted to host Prof. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social and Prof. Katherine Strandburg for a fascinating talk on “Algorithmic Opacity as a Principal-Agent Problem.” Thank you both for such a thoughtful discussion.
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Looking forward to joining you tomorrow!
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 09/02/2026
The UK and France’s response to the Grok deepfake case suggests that effective AI regulation may not come from comprehensive AI-specific frameworks, but from the proper application of existing harm-based approaches to new capabilities, writes @ignaciocofone.bsky.social:
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Grok, Deepfakes, and the Collapse of the Content/Capability Distinction
The Grok case suggests that effective AI regulation may come not from comprehensive AI-specific frameworks, but from applying existing harm-based laws to new capabilities.
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Ryan Fritsch @upsideofdown.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Can’t wait to read this! For our part the @lco-cdo.bsky.social 2024 Consumer Protection Project recommended Ontario regulate consumer notice to include “market contexts” - plain language descriptions of systems & real risks ie “structural uncertainties.” See p 33-36: www.lco-cdo.org/wp-content/u...
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Happy to share “The Privacy Paradox is a Misnomer: Data Under Structural Uncertainty” (GTLJ 2026) which empirically shows uncertainty about downstream data uses and consequences, rather than unstable or contradictory preferences, drives the so-called privacy paradox papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Privacy Paradox Is A Misnomer: Data Under Structural Uncertainty
The infamous privacy paradox refers to the apparent inconsistency between people's stated concern for privacy and their readiness to disclose personal informati
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
ISP Fellow @ignaciocofone.bsky.social publishes in Iowa Law Review about "Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law
Synthetic data is increasingly important in data usage and AI design, creating novel legal and policy dilemmas. All too often, discussions of synthetic data tre
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Norway’s Court of Appeal just upheld the historic fine against Grindr for (unlawful) sharing its users data with third parties. It’s an important step in considering inferences personal data (app-level identifiers as processing that reveals sexual orientation) www.datatilsynet.no/contentasset...
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Happy to share our new piece with Katherine Strandburg & Nicholas Tilmes, “Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law.” It engages Gal & Lynskey’s excellent article & centers the role of ground-truth assumptions. The key q is how creation methods encode claims about the world ssrn.com/abstract=555...
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Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law
Synthetic data is increasingly important in data usage and AI design, creating novel legal and policy dilemmas. All too often, discussions of synthetic data tre
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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
As many know, @bjard.bsky.social and I have been drafting a Technology Law coursebook for a few years. We've used it to teach classes at three institutions, including Yale Law School, and others have used chapters in their techlaw classes. We're excited to share the current version more broadly!
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Claudia Haupt @cehaupt.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Always read @ignaciocofone.bsky.social, including accidental legal history.
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Glad to see this chapter published. I always found history of law quite interesting, and I never thought I would accidentally do it by writing in 2023-2024 a chapter focused on two now dead pieces of legislation! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Generative AI Regulation in the US and Canada
AbstractThe US and Canada regulate generative AI in different ways for the public and private sectors. They both have federal frameworks that set AI-specif
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
What a nice surprise to find this review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Society for Technical Communication by Donald Riccomini. Thankful to the reviewer for engaging the book and the claim that we need a new type of accountability www.jstor.org/stable/27373...
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
My article "Protecting Consumers in a Post-Consent World," about how we can broaden antitrust and consumer protection to deal with the fact that we have abandoned notice and consent in contract law, is now published in the Stanford Law Review Online. www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/prote...
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Protecting Consumers in a Post-Consent World | Stanford Law Review
In Charting a New Course on Digital Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, former FTC Chair Lina Khan and her co-authors Samuel Levine a
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New op-ed: Many users were distraught over OpenAI’s shift from GPT-4o to GPT-5, describing the change as “losing a friend” or a “therapist.” The enormous online reaction shows that, when language models sound convincingly human, people start to forget they aren't.
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Big thank you to @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for his generous review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Journal of Law & Political Economy. He lays out the difficult questions involved in valuing harm & distributing compensation, in which LPE can play a role escholarship.org/uc/item/4jz9...
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Alicia Solow-Niederman @aliciasn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I'm delighted to share that my article, AI and Doctrinal Collapse, is forthcoming in Stanford Law Review! Draft at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🎉 We are delighted to announce that Lionel Smith, Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 👏 He joins a community of over 1,800 scholars who share a commitment to advancing the humanities and social sciences. 👇 shorturl.at/3Bkyg
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I often think of this intentional stylistic choice as the opposite of Madeleine Elish’s “moral crumple zone” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction (pre-print)
As debates about the policy and ethical implications of AI systems grow, it will be increasingly important to accurately locate who is responsible when agency i
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Grateful to Christopher D’Souza for his thoughtful review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Canadian Journal of Law & Technology. He that our privacy regime is, as he says,“not only outdated, but untenable” in the face of current data practices.
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Check out recorded talks from our Law & Tech Speaker Series: lnkd.in/eBZ2prw7 In “Why AI Requires Rebuilding Privacy Law”, Prof. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social explains why AI demands shifting privacy law from individual control to harm prevention. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsQV...
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New draft from me, “Privacy and Disinformation,” on why privacy law, not speech or economic regulation, is the best path forward for fighting social media disinformation. Read the draft here (and later finalized in UC Law Journal): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What an amazing resource by @daniel-solove.bsky.social. A history of privacy books. Makes a perfect summer reading list. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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<span>Notable Privacy Books: A Journey Through History</span>
<p><span>In this essay, I discuss notable privacy books from the 1960s to 2020s – seven decades and more than 400 books. I briefly explain why each book is note
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Helpful article for this, @thomaskadri.bsky.social's Platforms as Blackacres www.uclalawreview.org/platforms-as...
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Platforms as Blackacres - UCLA Law Review
ABSTRACT This Article argues that this indiscriminate treatment of all websites as blackacres violates the First Amendment. Applying cyber-trespass rules identically across the internet undermines cor...
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TeachPrivacy @teachprivacy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
In this essay, @daniel-solove.bsky.social discusses 400+ privacy books over the past 70+ years papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The EU AI Act establishes a different right to explanation of an AI system's decisions than the GDPR: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (by Kaminski & Malgieri)
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The Right to Explanation in the AI Act
This chapter offers a comprehensive analysis of Article 86 of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which introduces a right to explanation for individuals affect
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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
ICYMI: We Robot 2025 has a new permanent online home @windsorlaw.bsky.social, along with 2 exciting updates: 🤖 Video links are now included for each of our panels. Revisit or check out the conversation if you couldn't join us in person. 🤖 And (see next post) 1/3 www.uwindsor.ca/law/3450/wer...
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Thank you!!
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Glad you liked the talk! There's a forthcoming paper with Katherine Strandburg from NYU on this project and I'd be happy to send it if interested
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We used to talk about how, and not whether, to regulate AI bias/discrimination. "But those conversations are becoming increasingly difficult to have" www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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How the “woke” debate is shaking up AI
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Earlier this year, the Balkinization blog held a symposium on @ignaciocofone.bsky.social's book “The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy.” In response to the comments, Ignacio, one of our Advisory Board members, authored a two-part piece on the Balkinization site.
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Balkinization
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... - as Yuki Matsumi and I argue in our article The Prediction Society, such tools are deeply problematic ssrn.com/abstract=445...
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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This week’s Law & Tech Talk examined “Why AI Requires Rebuilding Privacy Law.” Thank you to @ignaciocofone.bsky.social for a magnificent presentation!
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
So excited to have @ignaciocofone.bsky.social (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford & Institute for Ethics in AI) talk to us tomorrow about: "Why AI Requires Rebuilding Privacy Law" Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 12:10PM-1:30PM - SLB 128 DM for zoom details Cosponsored by @YJoLT
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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#WeRobot2025 @caryscraig.bsky.social starts by summing up @ignaciocofone.bsky.social's excellent paper, about how the "trade-off" btwn fairness and accuracy in algorithmic decision-making is a convenient false dichotomy that excuses accountability for programs that reinforce systemic discrimination
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New paper: "The Overstated Cost of AI Fairness in Criminal Justice" is forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal. We push back against the common idea in criminal justice that fairness constraints in recidivism prediction reduce predictive accuracy & impose social costs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Overstated Cost of AI Fairness in Criminal Justice
The dominant critique of algorithmic fairness in AI decision-making, particularly in criminal justice, is that increasing fairness reduces the accuracy of predi
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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The application is open until Friday next week for anyone who might be interested my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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