🧵 How do companies in highly regulated domains actually test their AI systems for and mitigate discrimination? Our new @upturn.org paper at @facct.bsky.social w/ Emily Black, @mbogen.bsky.social, @s010n.bsky.social, and @wesleydeng.bsky.social, tries to answer this question: a…
Who's Who of AI
logan koepke
senior project director @upturn.org. research and advocacy on the material harms of AI systems, with a specific focus on civil rights. personal views.
we have it in our power to begin the world over again.
www.jlkoepke.com
What they're sharing
The Fair Lending Model: How the Longest-Running Algorithmic Fairness Programs Work in Practice arxiv.org
FTC Seeks Public Comment on Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy ftc.gov
Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub btah.org
Articles & links
“In light of the above, the Commission believes that AI companies that steer the outputs of their AI systems toward unexpected objectives, and away from the objectives set by or reasonably expected by users, are likely to deceive.” www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
yes, and — even worse: today AI systems today enforce *existing austerity* of our public benefits systems and social safety net, helping facilitate determinations of who is worthy and not of care, food, unemployment, etc. only made worse by OBBBA's Medicaid cuts + work require…
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Recent commentary
my 💭 to the trahan-obernolte AI discussion draft conversation: if the stated motivation is preempting state laws re: *frontier model development,* why does the text preempt "AI model" development and not "frontier model" development, given the definitions are different in the bill's text?
the slaughter scotus decision basically imperils any ai governance policy proposal that would rely upon multi-member, independent commissioners to do technical licensing calls.
theory of change: befriend someone in middle school who has a father who is elementary school friends with the person who becomes the Pope, talk about AI
noticeable that the other ai labs, and seemingly a lot of the research community, are silent as xAI and the DOJ mount an effort to declare a law requiring testing AI systems for discrimination is unconstitutional.
guess OpenAI's stated "our contract is keyed to laws as they exist today" red line w/ the DOD will get a real workout with the new NSPM directing the DOD to update 3000.09 in 90 days and then reviewed annually.
wow I wonder if there were any other signals that this administration was anti-immigrant? and that this would perhaps inform how OpenAI’s president spends political money?
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