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Define algorithmic opacity #240

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ewuska opened this issue Jun 21, 2020 · 0 comments
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Define algorithmic opacity #240

ewuska opened this issue Jun 21, 2020 · 0 comments
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ewuska commented Jun 21, 2020

Submitting for consideration the following term and definition draft from the DDH:

Algorithmic Opacity

The effect of an algorithmic system designed in a way that makes difficult to explain why a certain decision was made by it.

An algorithmic system may be kept opaque deliberately to conceal how it operates, unintentionally due to the expert technical knowledge required to understand it, or as result of a mismatch between how humans and algorithms understand the input given.
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