How to Make Decisions with Algorithms: Ethical Decision-Making Using Algorithms within Predictive Analytics
2017 (English)In: CEPE/Ethicomp 2017: ElectronicCollection / [ed] Richard Volkman, Torino: Università degli Studi di Torino , 2017, p. 1-13Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The use of automated decision-making support, such as algorithms within predictive analytics,will inevitably be more and more relevant and will be affecting society. Sometimes it is good,and sometimes there seems to be negative effect, such as with discrimination. The solutionfocused on in this paper is how humans and algorithms, or ICT, could interact within ethicaldecision-making. What predictive analytics can produce is, arguably, mostly implicit knowledge,so what a human decision-maker could, possibly, help with is the explicit thought processes.This could be one way to conceptualize an interactive effect between humans and algorithms thatcould be fruitful. Presently there does not seem to be very much research regarding predictiveanalytics and ethical decisions, concerning this human-algorithm interaction. Rather it is often afocus on pure technological solutions, or with laws and regulation.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Torino: Università degli Studi di Torino , 2017. p. 1-13
Keywords [en]
predictive analytics, algorithms, ethical decision-making, implicit bias, critical thinking, automation, fourth paradigm
National Category
Human Computer Interaction Ethics Computer Sciences
Research subject
Human-Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-329422OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-329422DiVA, id: diva2:1141482
Conference
CEPE/Ethicomp 2017, Values in Emerging Science and Technology, June 5-8, University of Turin, Italy
Projects
ETHCOMP2017-09-142017-09-142019-03-04Bibliographically approved