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User Tampering in Reinforcement Learning Recommender Systems

This paper provides the first formalisation and empirical demonstration of a particular safety concern in reinforcement learning (RL)-based news and social media recommendation algorithms. This safety concern is what we call "user tampering" -- a phenomenon whereby an RL-based recommender system may manipulate a media user's opinions, preferences and beliefs via its recommendations as part of a policy to increase long-term user engagement.

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Women in AI Ethics™ Asia Pacific Summit

On November 11 2020, the Women in AI Ethics™ Collective - Australia held their first Asia Pacific summit. The summit brought together women and allies from around the world to discuss the current state of diversity + ethics in AI and build meaningful action plans for progress through inspiring panel discussions, workshops, and lightning talks. Click through for more information.

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Evidence, Arbitrariness, and Fair Treatment

This paper is about why we find it problematic to appeal to certain kinds of statistical or profiling evidence when making decisions about individuals. I argue for a novel solution: the problem has to do with the causal information carried by the evidence. We object to evidence that is merely accidental in that it does not carry appropriate causal information pertinent to the decision.

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