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Hey you have a favicon now! I always think of Simpsons Paradox as a special case of moderation/suppression effects.

Anyways I had done a workshop on AI Fairness last summer, came away a bit underwhelmed by lack of good/general solutions available, now I'm pretty concerned that there's legislation pending that mandating using it...

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Are you referring to the legislation in the UK? They put out some paper stating how they will become "the world's most innovative economy." I also worry quite a bit about these kinds of things. I struggle to see how they will actually enforce this stuff other than through draconian fines for companies that don't check arbitrary boxes.

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The DC bill is the one I'm thinking of - not only does it require audits (+ disclosure in six languages), it has a private right of action similar to the texas abortion ban, so randos that never do business with you can sue .

https://datainnovation.org/2022/09/dcs-proposed-stop-discrimination-by-algorithms-act-would-discriminate-against-algorithms/

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That's insane. Is this for DC residents only, similar to CCPA applying to CA residents? If this passes, I could imagine someone using a generative model to auto draft suits against competitors or the opposite, a generative model to auto generate documentation for algorithmic decision making that no human will ever be able to read completely. Legislators are growing increasingly out of touch with technology...

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CCPA applies to all /companies/ that do business in CA (that meet some threshholds). IANAL but if same is true for the DC laws that probably exposes every federal (sub-)contractor as well...

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Man... I suspect we will be living in very interesting times for the next several year.

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