Fairness now at #FAT2020 starting off with a really important question: what do you do if you don’t collect demographic data?
Proxy methods like BISG can be used to infer the category, but that means that all auditing is vulnerable to the particularities/problems in the proxy method.
Maybe you have access to an auxiliary dataset like a census file. How effective would that be?
Now let’s optimize the estimates, even given all the constraints. Main challenges occur when you introduce additional constraints.
Yes, do audit. Absolutely. But, be careful about what you infer using proxy methods.
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