Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Many decisions require some kind of personal discretion: Was a workplace accident due to negligence? Should a particular person be deported? In these cases, we are inclined to preserve human agency in order to fully consider the situation’s context (discretion); at the same time, we usually don't want people making capricious choices (denoise).
In this talk, computer scientist Finale Doshi-Velez and Cyberlaw Clinic lawyer Mason Kortz discuss the challenges and opportunities for designing AIs that help us make decisions in these normative contexts, as opposed to the predictive settings in which we have assumed that AI is helping. In many cases it's not -- and thus our support is not the right type. The session offers interactive scenarios to discover what helps us adhere to due process without being manipulated.
Many decisions require some kind of personal discretion: Was a workplace accident due to negligence? Should a particular person be deported? In these cases, we are inclined to preserve human agency in order to fully consider the situation’s context (discretion); at the same time, we usually don't want people making capricious choices (denoise).
In this talk, computer scientist Finale Doshi-Velez and Cyberlaw Clinic lawyer Mason Kortz discuss the challenges and opportunities for designing AIs that help us make decisions in these normative contexts, as opposed to the predictive settings in which we have assumed that AI is helping. In many cases it's not -- and thus our support is not the right type. The session offers interactive scenarios to discover what helps us adhere to due process without being manipulated.
