“Concerns about technology and fairness go back a long way, even from a legal perspective. For example, as early as the 1970s it was illegal under French law to make any decisions affecting human beings in a purely algorithmic manner—that is, without any human supervision.” TechnologyHumanFairnessFrenchLegal1970sAlgorithmic Book:Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models Source: Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models
“The idea that society can be made more consistent, more accurate, and more fair by replacing idiosyncratic human judgment with numerical models is hardly a new one. In fact, their use even in criminal justice is nearly a century old.” JusticeSocietyHumanJudgementConsistentAccurateFairNumericalIdiosyncratic Book:Practical Time Series Analysis: Prediction with Statistics and Machine Learning Source: Practical Time Series Analysis: Prediction with Statistics and Machine Learning