At the Boundary of Law and Software: Toward Regulatory Design with Agent-Based Modeling

Sebastian Benthall; Michael Carl Tschantz; Erez Hatna; Joshua M. Epstein; Katherine J. Strandburg

At the Boundary of Law and Software: Toward Regulatory Design with Agent-Based Modeling

Sebastian Benthall, Michael Carl Tschantz, Erez Hatna, Joshua M. Epstein, Katherine J. Strandburg

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	3182
State	Published - 2022
Event	1st Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling and Policy-Making, AMPM 2021 - Virtual, Vulnius, Lithuania Duration: Dec 8 2021 → …

Keywords

accountability
agent-based modeling
automated decision making
regulation

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General Computer Science

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