Understand, Manage, and Prevent Algorithmic Bias: A Guide for Business Users and Data Scientists

© Tobias Baer 2019

Tobias BaerUnderstand, Manage, and Prevent Algorithmic Biashttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4885-0_22

22. How to Prevent Bias in Self-Improving Models

Tobias Baer¹ 

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Kaufbeuren, Germany

 

One of the greatest advantages of machine learning is that models can build and update themselves without any human intervention, enabling them to respond to structural changes at the fastest possible pace. The very context requiring such self-improving algorithms (the fast change of the environment in which they operate) is also the source of a heightened risk of biases affecting the algorithm, be it self-reinforcing feedback loops like we experienced in the context of social media (Chapter 11) or new data that might enable the algorithm to ...