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Toward Accountable Discrimination-Aware Data Mining: The Importance of Keeping the Human in the Loop—and Under the Looking Glass

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Berendt, Bettina, Preibusch, Sören·2017·Big Data

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"Big Data" and data-mined inferences are affecting more and more of our lives, and concerns about their possible discriminatory effects are growing. Methods for discrimination-aware data mining and fairness-aware data mining aim at keeping decision processes supported by information technology free from unjust grounds. However, these formal approaches alone are not sufficient to solve the problem. In the present article, we describe reasons why discrimination with data can and typically does arise through the combined effects of human and machine-based reasoning, and argue that this requires a deeper understanding of the human side of decision-making with data mining. We describe results from a large-scale human-subjects experiment that investigated such decision-making, analyzing the reasoning that participants reported during their task to assess whether a loan request should or would be granted. We derive data protection by design strategies for making decision-making discrimination-aware in an accountable way, grounding these requirements in the accountability principle of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, and outline how their implementations can integrate algorithmic, behavioral, and user interface factors.

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  • Deployment of bigdata analyses will itself create data that become input to further data analyses, which can create vicious-cycle phenomena that perpetuate or aggravate bias and discrimination.

    “In general, since the deployment of bigdata analyses will itself create data that then become input to further data analyses, this can easily create vicious-cycle phenomena that have been observed by sociologists for long, dynamics that can perpetuate or even aggravate bias and discrimination [64].”

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Authors
Berendt, B., & Preibusch, S.
Affiliations
  • KU Leuven (BE)
  • Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) (GB)
Corresponding author
Berendt, Bettina
Venue
Big Data
Published
2017-06
Volume
5
Issue
2
Pages
135-152
ISSN
  • 2167-6461 (ISSN-L)
  • 2167-647X
OpenAlex
W2623475374
Cited by
32
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1
FWCI
6.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Big Data (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Lirias (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Social Sciences › Law › Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
Keywords
accountability, human-in-the-loop decision making, loan approval decisions, data protection by design, General Data Protection Regulation, algorithmic fairness, user interface design
MeSH terms
Decision Making, Humans, Data Mining

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