Troy Clifford

One of Eight: Can Deployed Agent Systems Record Who Approved an Action?

Several jurisdictions now give a person the right to human review of an automated decision. This paper asks the narrower question that the deployment of those rights depends on: whether the software that takes the decisions can produce a record showing which human reviewed one. T...

One of Eight: Can Deployed Agent Systems Record Who Approved an Action?

Several jurisdictions now give a person the right to human review of an automated decision. This paper asks the narrower question that the deployment of those rights depends on: whether the software that takes the decisions can produce a record showing which human reviewed one. T...

Popularity Is Not Association: Auditing a Belief-Forming Rule Against 19,668 Respondents

A system that forms beliefs about people from partial evidence was tested against a population whose correlation structure the author did not choose. Two defects were found, and both were load-bearing. The rule that mined regularities recovered the dataset's known five-factor str...