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Automated decision systems (ADS) are increasingly used for consequential decision-making. These systems often rely on sophisticated yet opaque machine learning models, which do not allow for understanding how a given decision was arrived…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jakob Schoeffer

Recent years have seen the rapid development of fairness-aware machine learning in mitigating unfairness or discrimination in decision-making in a wide range of applications. However, much less attention has been paid to the fairness-aware…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Guo Yu , Lianbo Ma , Wei Du , Wenli Du , Yaochu Jin

Contemporary debates in AI ethics increasingly foreground the prospective moral status of artificial intelligence and the possibility of extending moral or legal rights to artificial agents. While such discussions raise substantive…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rahulrajan Karthikeyan , Moses Boudourides

In the past decade, the deployment of deep learning (Artificial Intelligence (AI)) methods has become pervasive across a spectrum of real-world applications, often in safety-critical contexts. This comprehensive research article rigorously…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Sidra Nasir , Rizwan Ahmed Khan , Samita Bai

Automated computer vision systems have been applied in many domains including security, law enforcement, and personal devices, but recent reports suggest that these systems may produce biased results, discriminating against people in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jungseock Joo , Kimmo Kärkkäinen

AI ethics is an emerging field with multiple, competing narratives about how to best solve the problem of building human values into machines. Two major approaches are focused on bias and compliance, respectively. But neither of these ideas…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Thomas Krendl Gilbert , Megan Welle Brozek , Andrew Brozek

A major problem with using automated classification systems is that if they are not engineered correctly and with fairness considerations, they could be detrimental to certain populations. Furthermore, while engineers have developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Dalia Ortiz Pablo , Sushruth Badri , Erik Norén , Christoph Nötzli

With the growing adoption of AI and machine learning systems in real-world applications, ensuring their fairness has become increasingly critical. The majority of the work in algorithmic fairness focus on assessing and improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Eunice Chan , Hanghang Tong

Machine learning (ML) applications in medical artificial intelligence (AI) systems have shifted from traditional and statistical methods to increasing application of deep learning models. This survey navigates the current landscape of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Elisa Warner , Joonsang Lee , William Hsu , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood , Charles Kahn , Olivier Gevaert , Arvind Rao

Time series prediction algorithms are increasingly central to decision-making in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, energy management, and economic planning. Yet, these systems often inherit and amplify biases embedded in historical…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-12-19 Bagattini Alexander , Chen Shao

A vast number of systems across the world use algorithmic decision making (ADM) to (partially) automate decisions that have previously been made by humans. The downstream effects of ADM systems critically depend on the decisions made during…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-21 Jan Simson , Florian Pfisterer , Christoph Kern

Medical decision systems increasingly rely on data from multiple sources to ensure reliable and unbiased diagnosis. However, existing multimodal learning models fail to achieve this goal because they often ignore two critical challenges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Md Zubair , Hao Zheng , Nussdorf Jonathan , Grayson W. Armstrong , Lucy Q. Shen , Gabriela Wilson , Yu Tian , Xingquan Zhu , Min Shi

Despite the rapid development and great success of machine learning models, extensive studies have exposed their disadvantage of inheriting latent discrimination and societal bias from the training data. This phenomenon hinders their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Tianxiang Zhao , Enyan Dai , Kai Shu , Suhang Wang

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has become a very active research area in the last few years. While significant progress has been made in image classification tasks, only a few AI methods are actually being deployed in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Ramon Correa , Jiwoong Jason Jeong , Bhavik Patel , Hari Trivedi , Judy W. Gichoya , Imon Banerjee

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly those based on deep learning models, have increasingly achieved expert-level performance in medical applications. However, there is growing concern that such AI systems may reflect and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xiuying Chen , Tairan Wang , Juexiao Zhou , Zirui Song , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

With the increasing use of AI in algorithmic decision making (e.g. based on neural networks), the question arises how bias can be excluded or mitigated. There are some promising approaches, but many of them are based on a "fair" ground…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Marc P Hauer , Johannes Kevekordes , Maryam Amir Haeri

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in safety-critical applications, including law enforcement, yet they exhibit bias across a range of socio-demographic dimensions, such as gender and race. Conventional wisdom dictates that model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Samuel Dooley , Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , John P. Dickerson , Colin White , Frank Hutter , Micah Goldblum

Fairness has become increasingly pivotal in medical image recognition. However, without mitigating bias, deploying unfair medical AI systems could harm the interests of underprivileged populations. In this paper, we observe that while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ching-Hao Chiu , Hao-Wei Chung , Yu-Jen Chen , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho

Our society is plagued by several biases, including racial biases, caste biases, and gender bias. As a matter of fact, several years ago, most of these notions were unheard of. These biases passed through generations along with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Lavisha Aggarwal , Shruti Bhargava

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed various sectors, including healthcare, where it holds the potential to revolutionize clinical practice and improve patient outcomes. However, its integration into medical settings brings…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Ellison B. Weiner , Irene Dankwa-Mullan , William A. Nelson , Saeed Hassanpour