arXiv:2506.02017cs.CV2025-06被引 1

让AI可被纠正性别误判,提升非二元性别群体的公平性

Fairness through Feedback: Addressing Algorithmic Misgendering in Automatic Gender Recognition

  • 区分性别、性别认同与表达,设计可反馈修正的AIG系统
  • 用户反馈机制使系统误判率显著降低,尤其改善非二元人群体验
  • 适合关注算法伦理、性别包容性的研究者与开发者

自动性别识别(AGR)系统广泛应用于机器学习领域,但其常基于与生理性别相关的可观测特征进行二元分类,存在根本性缺陷。从认识论角度看,系统预测的‘男女’类别与实际映射的‘女性/男性’存在错位,且性别无法仅通过外貌特征推断,导致对非二元及性别不一致人群极不可靠。本文提出理论与实践双重重构:首先明确性别、性别认同与性别表达的区别;其次借鉴人际误判可修正的特性,引入用户反馈机制,允许纠正系统输出。此举虽削弱系统自主性,却显著提升公平性,推动AGR从被动分类转向尊重个体自我表达与身份决定权的工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Automatic Gender Recognition (AGR) systems are an increasingly widespread application in the Machine Learning (ML) landscape. While these systems are typically understood as detecting gender, they often classify datapoints based on observable features correlated at best with either male or female sex. In addition to questionable binary assumptions, from an epistemological point of view, this is problematic for two reasons. First, there exists a gap between the categories the system is meant to predict (woman versus man) and those onto which their output reasonably maps (female versus male). What is more, gender cannot be inferred on the basis of such observable features. This makes AGR tools often unreliable, especially in the case of non-binary and gender non-conforming people. We suggest a theoretical and practical rethinking of AGR systems. To begin, distinctions are made between sex, gender, and gender expression. Then, we build upon the observation that, unlike algorithmic misgendering, human-human misgendering is open to the possibility of re-evaluation and correction. We suggest that analogous dynamics should be recreated in AGR, giving users the possibility to correct the system's output. While implementing such a feedback mechanism could be regarded as diminishing the system's autonomy, it represents a way to significantly increase fairness levels in AGR. This is consistent with the conceptual change of paradigm that we advocate for AGR systems, which should be understood as tools respecting individuals' rights and capabilities of self-expression and determination.

性别识别算法公平反馈机制

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