Can Auditing Eliminate Bias from Algorithms? – The Markup

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• Rather than remove bias, one algorithm after another has codified and perpetuated it, as companies have simultaneously continued to more or less shield their algorithms from public scrutiny.
• While HireVue was open to any type of audit, including one that involved looking at our process in general, ORCAA asked to focus on a single use case to enable concrete discussions about the system,” Lindsey Zuloaga, HireVue’s chief data scientist, said in an email.
• “ Rumman Chowdhury, Twitter director of machine learning ethics Auditors have been in scenarios where they don’t have access to the software’s code and so risk violating computer access laws, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, an auditor and a research collaborator at the Algorithmic Justice League, said.
• However, the stakes are too high to wait for full academic consensus before Congress begins to take action to protect against bias tainting automated systems.