🧵 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
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The Fair Lending Model: How the Longest-Running Algorithmic Fairness Programs Work in Practice arxiv.org
Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub btah.org
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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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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?
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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