Tag: Fairness

Empowering Fairness: Recognizing and Addressing Bias in Generative Models

In 2021, Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy released a report where they found that machine learning algorithms can pick up biases similar to those of humans from their training data. One striking example of this effect is a study about the AI hiring tool...

Empowering Fairness: Recognizing and Addressing Bias in Generative Models

In 2021, Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy released a report where they found that machine learning algorithms can pick up biases similar to those of humans from their training data. One striking example of this effect is a study about the AI hiring tool...

Closing the gender pay gap — Columbia Road’s Salary Fairness process

Since our one-room office on Eerikinkatu, diversity, equity, and inclusion have been at the very core of Columbia Road. With our culture built on trust and transparency, it was clear early on that we needed to create a salary model that endures internal and external scrutiny. A guiding principle has...

Saturn Series: Seventh House or Libra — Fairness and Relationships

If you have Saturn in your Seventh House or if it is transiting this house you will likely be learning lots of big lessons about one-to-one relationships. These may be through romantic partners, close friends, business partners, colleagues, or open enemies, for example. This placement forces you ...

Studying Up: Reorienting the field of algorithmic fairness around issues of power

As academics, so much of our power lies in how we frame the problems we aim to solve, in formulating the right question. Yet, the academic community dedicated to the pursuit of “fair” algorithmic systems has not taken enough time to develop the right set of questions in pursuit of thi...

Justice as fairness or justice as capabilities? John Rawls vs Amartya Sen

This article sets out some of the key concepts found in Justice as Fairness, a theory of justice propounded by John Rawls, and then presents Amartya Sen’s account for justice to discuss to what extent it may constitute a response to Rawls’s theory. Rawls and Sen share similar vie...