提出十项原则,让算法公平更关注多重歧视的复杂现实。
Toward Substantive Intersectional Algorithmic Fairness: Desiderata for a Feminist Approach
- 从女性主义理论出发,重构算法公平的评估框架。
- 强调需纳入多重边缘化群体,避免简化社会不公。
- 适合关注社会正义与算法伦理的研究者和开发者。
个体所经历的歧视往往由多重交叉因素共同塑造,但现有算法公平研究很少反映这种复杂性。尽管交叉性理论能帮助理解压迫形式的相互作用,当前的交叉性算法公平方法仍局限于狭义的人口子群体。这些方法虽具启发性,却可能简化社会现实并忽视结构性不平等。本文提出一种实质性的交叉性算法公平框架,扩展Green(2022)的实质算法公平概念,融入交叉性女性主义理论。为提供可操作指引,该框架以十项理想标准呈现,指导算法系统的设计、评估与部署,旨在应对系统性不平等,并减少对交叉性边缘群体的伤害。这些标准不规定固定操作方式,而是促使AI从业者反思中立假设、受保护属性的使用、多重边缘化群体的纳入,以及算法系统的变革潜力。通过融合计算与社会科学视角,该方法强调公平无法脱离社会语境,某些情况下,有原则地拒绝部署也可能是必要的。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
People's experiences of discrimination are often shaped by multiple intersecting factors, yet algorithmic fairness research rarely reflects this complexity. While intersectionality offers tools for understanding how forms of oppression interact, current approaches to intersectional algorithmic fairness tend to focus on narrowly defined demographic subgroups. These methods contribute important insights but risk oversimplifying social reality and neglecting structural inequalities. In this paper, we outline how a substantive approach to intersectional algorithmic fairness can reorient this research and practice. In particular, we propose Substantive Intersectional Algorithmic Fairness, extending Green's (2022) notion of substantive algorithmic fairness with insights from intersectional feminist theory. Aiming to provide as actionable guidance as possible, our approach is articulated as ten desiderata to guide the design, assessment, and deployment of algorithmic systems that address systemic inequities while mitigating harms to intersectionally marginalized communities. Rather than prescribing fixed operationalizations, these desiderata invite AI practitioners and experts to reflect on assumptions of neutrality, the use of protected attributes, the inclusion of multiply marginalized groups, and the transformative potential of algorithmic systems. By bridging computational and social science perspectives, the approach emphasizes that fairness cannot be separated from social context, and that in some cases, principled non-deployment may be necessary.
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