Fairness in agreement with European values: An interdisciplinary perspective on ai regulation

Alejandra Bringas Colmenarejo; Luca Nannini; Alisa Rieger; Kristen M. Scott; Xuan Zhao; Gourab K. Patro; Gjergji Kasneci; Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda

doi:10.1145/3514094.3534158

Fairness in agreement with European values: An interdisciplinary perspective on ai regulation

Alejandra Bringas Colmenarejo, Luca Nannini, Alisa Rieger, Kristen M. Scott, Xuan Zhao, Gourab K. Patro, Gjergji Kasneci, Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda

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With increasing digitalization, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous. AI-based systems to identify, optimize, automate, and scale solutions to complex economic and societal problems are being proposed and implemented. This has motivated regulation efforts, including the Proposal of an EU AI Act. This interdisciplinary position paper considers various concerns surrounding fairness and discrimination in AI, and discusses how AI regulations address them, focusing on (but not limited to) the Proposal. We first look at AI and fairness through the lenses of law, (AI) industry, sociotechnology, and (moral) philosophy, and present various perspectives. Then, we map these perspectives along three axes of interests: (i) Standardization vs. Localization, (ii) Utilitarianism vs. Egalitarianism, and (iii) Consequential vs. Deontological ethics which leads us to identify a pattern of common arguments and tensions between these axes. Positioning the discussion within the axes of interest and with a focus on reconciling the key tensions, we identify and propose the roles AI Regulation should take to make the endeavor of the AI Act a success in terms of AI fairness concerns.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	107-118
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9247-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3514094.3534158
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	5th AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, AIES 2022 - Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Aug 2022 → 3 Aug 2022

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Name	AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

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Conference	5th AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, AIES 2022
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Oxford
Period	1/08/22 → 3/08/22

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Keywords

ai regulation
consequential ethics
deontological ethics
egalitarian welfare
eu ai proposal
localization
standardization
utilitarian welfare

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Colmenarejo, A. B., Nannini, L., Rieger, A., Scott, K. M., Zhao, X., Patro, G. K., Kasneci, G., & Kinder-Kurlanda, K. (2022). Fairness in agreement with European values: An interdisciplinary perspective on ai regulation. In AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 107-118). (AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3514094.3534158

Colmenarejo, Alejandra Bringas ; Nannini, Luca ; Rieger, Alisa et al. / Fairness in agreement with European values : An interdisciplinary perspective on ai regulation. AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. pp. 107-118 (AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society).

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AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. p. 107-118 (AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society).

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Colmenarejo AB, Nannini L, Rieger A, Scott KM, Zhao X, Patro GK et al. Fairness in agreement with European values: An interdisciplinary perspective on ai regulation. In AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2022. p. 107-118. (AIES 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society). doi: 10.1145/3514094.3534158

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