TY - JOUR
T1 - At the Boundary of Law and Software
T2 - 1st Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling and Policy-Making, AMPM 2021
AU - Benthall, Sebastian
AU - Tschantz, Michael Carl
AU - Hatna, Erez
AU - Epstein, Joshua M.
AU - Strandburg, Katherine J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 2131532, 2131533, and 2105301. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author?s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. One of the authors of this article is supported by the NYU Information Law Institute’s Fellows program, which is funded in part by Microsoft Corporation.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Computer systems that automate the making of decisions about people must be accountable to regulators. Such accountability requires looking at the operation of the software within an environment populated with people. We propose to use agent-based modeling (ABM) to model such environments for auditing and testing purposes. We explore our proposal by considering the use of ABM for the regulation of ad targeting to prevent housing discrimination.
AB - Computer systems that automate the making of decisions about people must be accountable to regulators. Such accountability requires looking at the operation of the software within an environment populated with people. We propose to use agent-based modeling (ABM) to model such environments for auditing and testing purposes. We explore our proposal by considering the use of ABM for the regulation of ad targeting to prevent housing discrimination.
KW - accountability
KW - agent-based modeling
KW - automated decision making
KW - regulation
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85137077996
SN - 1613-0073
VL - 3182
JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Y2 - 8 December 2021
ER -