2020/01/31 by Serena Wang, Wang, Serena, Maya R. Gupta +1 · 1 citation
Decision Sciences · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2001.11990
openalex publication_date 2020/01/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We demonstrate how easy it is for modern machine-learned systems to violate common deontological ethical principles and social norms such as "favor the less fortunate," and "do not penalize good attributes." We propose that in some cases such ethical principles can be incorporated into a machine-learned model by adding shape constraints that constrain the model to respond only positively to relevant inputs. We analyze the relationship between these deontological constraints that act on individuals and the consequentialist group-based fairness goals of one-sided statistical parity and equal opportunity. This strategy works with sensitive attributes that are Boolean or real-valued such as income and age, and can help produce more responsible and trustworthy AI.