The Fair Chances in Algorithmic Fairness: A Response to Holm

Res Publica 29 (2):231–237 (2023)
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Abstract

Holm (2022) argues that a class of algorithmic fairness measures, that he refers to as the ‘performance parity criteria’, can be understood as applications of John Broome’s Fairness Principle. We argue that the performance parity criteria cannot be read this way. This is because in the relevant context, the Fairness Principle requires the equalization of actual individuals’ individual-level chances of obtaining some good (such as an accurate prediction from a predictive system), but the performance parity criteria do not guarantee any such thing: the measures merely ensure that certain population-level ratios hold.

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Clinton Castro
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Michele Loi
Luiss Guido Carli

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