Unfairness Is Everywhere, so What to Do? An Interview With Jeanna Matthews.

Usually, when we talk to other software engineers about fairness and discrimination, it quickly becomes a conversation about measurement (e.g., how to check if different populations within society are getting different false-positive rates from that software). But if you talk to Dr. Jeanna Mathews from Clarkson University, the conversation is very different. She focuses on risk as a function of the severity of consequences and the probability of those consequences occurring. Then she asks how legislation could help manage high-risk software.