The Unfairness of Fair Machine Learning: Levelling down and strict egalitarianism by default

In recent years fairness in machine learning (ML) has emerged as a highly active area of research and development. Most define fairness in simple terms, where fairness means reducing gaps in performance or outcomes between demographic groups while preserving as much of the accuracy of the original system as possible. This oversimplification of equality through fairness measures is troubling.

Focusing In on Life Course Processes to Understand How Racism Patterns Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Health

Ethnic inequalities in health are entrenched and persistent in the UK. This seminar explores the role of racism, experienced over the life course, in structuring ethnic inequalities in health in later life. Anchored around key tenets of life course theory, this presentation will discuss findings from recent and upcoming publications that centre racism as the root cause of ethnic inequalities, exploring life course mechanisms that pattern stark ethnic inequities in later life.

Sanjaya Lall Fund Lecture 2023: "Freedom and Liberty: Perspectives from 21st Century Economics"

PROFESSOR JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
DISTINGUISHED SANJAYA LALL VISITING FELLOW
University Professor at Columbia Univeristy

Chief Economist of The Roosevelt Institute
Co-founder and President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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