News and Research articles on Fairness

Fairness

Fairness as crowd-pleaser

Lee Andrew Bygrave, University of Oslo

PUBLISHED ON: 24 Jul 2025

Given the ubiquity of fairness as a normative criterion in tech policy, this op-ed warns of particular risks to its legitimising potential which may, in the long term, damage the standing of fairness as crowd-pleaser.

Volume 9, Issue 4

Algorithmic bias and the Value Sensitive Design approach

Judith Simon, Universität Hamburg
Pak-Hang Wong, Universität Hamburg
Gernot Rieder, Universität Hamburg
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Dec 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.4.1534

This article provides an overview of the Value Sensitive Design (VSD) methodology and explores how it can enrich the current debates on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning.

KEYWORDS: Value sensitive design, Algorithmic bias, Human values, Fairness, Fairness in Machine Learning