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Algorithmic Fairness, Risk, and the Dominant Protective Agency
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Digital Systems, Mobility and Systems. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2017-7914
2023 (English)In: Philosophy & Technology, ISSN 2210-5433, E-ISSN 2210-5441, Vol. 36, article id 76Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

With increasing use of automated algorithmic decision-making, issues of algorithmic fairness have attracted much attention lately. In this growing literature, existing concepts from ethics and political philosophy are often applied to new contexts. The reverse—that novel insights from the algorithmic fairness literature are fed back into ethics and political philosophy—is far less established. However, this short commentary on Baumann and Loi (Philosophy & Technology, 36(3), 45 2023) aims to do precisely this. Baumann and Loi argue that among algorithmic group fairness measures proposed, one—sufficiency (well-calibration) is morally defensible for insurers to use, whereas independence (statistical parity or demographic parity) and separation (equalized odds) are not normatively appropriate in the insurance context. Such a result may seem to be of relatively narrow interest to insurers and insurance scholars only. We argue, however, that arguments such as that offered by Baumann and Loi have an important but so far overlooked connection to the derivation of the minimal state offered by Nozick (1974) and thus to political philosophy at large.

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Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2023. Vol. 36, article id 76
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Algorithmic fairness, Insurance, Risk, "Anarchy, state, and utopia"
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-68577DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00684-xOAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-68577DiVA, id: diva2:1819182
Available from: 2023-12-13 Created: 2023-12-13 Last updated: 2024-01-31Bibliographically approved

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