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Shelley C. The Fairness Impact Assessment. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS 2022. [DOI: 10.4018/ijt.291554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
As modern life becomes ever more mediated by technology, technology assessment becomes ever more important. Tools that help to anticipate and evaluate social impacts of technological designs are crucial to understanding this relationship. This paper presents an assessment tool called the Fairness Impact Assessment (FIA). For present purposes, fairness refers to conflicts of interest between social groups that result from the configuration of technological designs. In these situations, designs operate in a way such that advantages they provide to one social group impose disadvantages on another. The FIA helps to make clear the nature of these conflicts and possibilities for their resolution. As a broad, qualitative framework, the FIA can be applied more generally than specifically quantitative frameworks currently being explored in the field of machine learning. Though not a formula for solving difficult social issues, the FIA provides a systematic means for the investigation of fairness problems in technology design that are otherwise not always well understood or addressed.
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Lucke JC, Diedrichs PC, Partridge B, Hall WD. Anticipating the anti-ageing pill. Lessons from the history of the oral contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy. EMBO Rep 2009; 10:108-13. [PMID: 19148223 PMCID: PMC2637320 DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jayne C Lucke
- School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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