I don’t think it’s adequate to attempt to prevent discrimination. Discrimination is core to our fundamental human rights. It’s necessary to succeed at preventing discrimination.
“We applied best practices in the field to limit discrimination” should not be an adequate legal defence if the model can be shown to discriminate.
To clarify further, just because you tried to prevent discrimination doesn’t mean you should be off the hook for the material harms of discrimination to a specific individual. Otherwise people don’t have a right to be protected against discrimination they only have a right to people ‘trying’ to prevent discrimination. We shouldn’t want to weaken rights that much even if it means we have to be cautious in how we adopt new technologies.
“We applied best practices in the field to limit discrimination” should not be an adequate legal defence if the model can be shown to discriminate.
To clarify further, just because you tried to prevent discrimination doesn’t mean you should be off the hook for the material harms of discrimination to a specific individual. Otherwise people don’t have a right to be protected against discrimination they only have a right to people ‘trying’ to prevent discrimination. We shouldn’t want to weaken rights that much even if it means we have to be cautious in how we adopt new technologies.