用风险科学改进AI公平性评估,让结果更可信、可行动。
Applications of Risk Science to AI Fairness Evaluation: Principles, Challenges, and Best Practices
- 引入风险科学方法,系统评估AI公平性后果的严重性和不确定性。
- 22项常用公平性指标多只讲问题严重性,忽略不确定性描述。
- 提出AI风险报告卡,帮助决策者理解并应对潜在风险。
旨在描述日益普及的技术(特别是人工智能或其他算法系统)潜在社会影响(如风险)的学术研究,可能超越科学共同体产生广泛影响,因为社会本身正是研究对象。然而,当前AI评估研究是否遵循风险科学确立的原则和最佳实践尚不明确。本文通过文献综述,分析了22项用于招聘与就业相关技术系统公平性评估的常见指标及研究,发现多数仅描述偏见或公平性后果的严重性,但未按风险科学规范对后果发生概率或严重性估计的不确定性进行表征。进一步以AI辅助简历筛选为例,展示了如何将风险科学原则融入公平性评估。最后提出AI风险报告卡,支持向具备行动能力的利益相关方有效报告和沟通风险评估结果。这些成果表明,风险科学与AI评估的融合有望推动社会影响评估的发展,建立跨科学界内外共享的评估框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Scholarly work which aims to describe potential societal impacts (e.g., risks) of proliferating technology (especially related to artificial intelligence or other algorithmic systems) is likely to have an impact beyond the scientific communities it was written for, given that general society itself is a primary object of study. However, it is an open question whether the current practices of AI evaluation scholarship follow the principles and best practices established by risk science, which aims to systematically generate knowledge related to understanding, assessing, communicating, managing, and governing risk. In this work, we examine this in depth by conducting a literature review of scholarly works purporting to evaluate the bias or fairness of technological systems used for tasks related to hiring and employment. Through analysis of 22 common fairness evaluation metrics and studies using them, we find that most characterize the severity of bias- or fairness-related consequences but do not follow best practices to characterize the uncertainty around either the occurrence of these consequences or severity estimates. Next, we conduct a case study of fairness evaluation for an AI-mediated resume screening task and demonstrate how principles of risk science can be incorporated into such an evaluation. Finally, we propose the AI Risk Report Card, which facilitates the reporting and communication of risk assessment results to stakeholders in positions to act based on the predicted risks. The outcomes of these activities suggest that further research at the convergence of risk science and AI evaluation can lead to advancements in AI assessments of societal impact by enabling shared frameworks to evaluate and discuss AI risks both within and outside of the scientific community.
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