AI Fairness and Beyond

Law, Regulation, and Technology

Chris Reed

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Hart Publishing
08 August 2024

Jurisprudence & general issues; Comparative law; IT & Communications law

This book proposes a regulatory system for ensuring that AI makes fair decisions.

No one wants to be the subject of an unfair decision made by an AI, and fairness is so important to society that we are likely to want to regulate to demand it. But how? This book attempts to answer that question.

The aim of regulation must be for an AI’s decisions to match the human conception of fairness. To understand what that is, the book proposes a holistic understanding of fairness, which tells us what regulation must try to achieve.

However, regulation is not an abstract activity – it regulates how humans behave, and the humans in question are those who develop and use AI for decision-making. Thus the book investigates how those humans are attempting to achieve AI fairness. It finds that there is a serious mismatch between how technologists conceptualise fairness, compared to other humans. How can AI regulation bridge this gap?

Traditional models of regulation cannot solve this problem. Fairness is too nuanced, too contextual, and is ultimately a human emotional response. Instead the book proposes to place the responsibility on the AI community to explain and justify their efforts to achieve fairness, basing regulatory and legal responses on how well that explanation deals with the risks that particular AI presents, and whether the AI operates in accordance with the explanation in use.

The book concludes by examining how far this regulatory model might be useful for some of the other social problems which AI generates.

An original and significant contribution to the literature on AI regulation, this book is a must-read for those working in the areas of law, regulation, and technology.

By: Chris Reed
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781509976805
ISBN 10: 1509976809
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 08 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Do We Need Fair AI? 3. Society’s Conception of Fairness 4. Theoretical Insights from Philosophy and Economics 5. Law’s Conception of Fairness 6. The Human Conception of Fairness 7. AI Fairness Techniques 8. A Regulatory Framework for AI Fairness 9. Beyond Fairness

Chris Reed is Professor of Electronic Commerce Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Reviews for AI Fairness and Beyond: Law, Regulation, and Technology

This book ‘proposes a regulatory system for ensuring that AI makes fair decisions’. Lawyers will immediately raise two questions: first, what constitutes ‘fairness’; and second, what sort of regulation might be effective? Those are knotty issues, and the author, a professor of electronic commercial law, faces them squarely over 200 pages in this solidly produced volume. -- James Wilson * The Law Society Gazette *