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Agency Laundering and Algorithmic Decision Systems

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This paper has two aims. The first is to explain a type of wrong that arises when agents obscure responsibility for their actions. Call it “agency laundering.” The second is to use the concept of agency laundering to understand the underlying moral issues in a number of recent cases involving algorithmic decision systems.

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    COMPAS stands for “Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions.” Northpointe is now a part of Equivant, Inc.

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  1. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

    Alan Rubel & Adam Pham

  2. Florida International University, Miami, USA

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  3. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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Rubel, A., Pham, A., Castro, C. (2019). Agency Laundering and Algorithmic Decision Systems. In: Taylor, N., Christian-Lamb, C., Martin, M., Nardi, B. (eds) Information in Contemporary Society. iConference 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11420. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_56

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