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Maximize neutrality
Ability to increase, demonstrate, or measure the neutrality of key aspects of a process.
How this is performed now...
- Process organizers Process organizers seek to demonstrate their impartiality by creating governance procedures with strong incentives and review mechanisms.
- Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens' assemblies organizers will hire external facilitation teams and commit to their independence through formal governance arrangements. They will allow external auditors or evaluators to review the process and monitor for bias.
Related Resources
Research
Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
Kleinberg, Mullainathan, and Raghavan (2016) formalize three competing fairness conditions in algorithmic classification and prove that except in highly constrained special cases, no method can satisfy these three conditions simultaneously. This foundational work establishes that practitioners mu...
Research
Linguistic Models for Analyzing and Detecting Biased Language
Natural language processing tools to detect biases. (Recasens, 2013; Pryzant, 2020)
Research
Automatically Neutralizing Subjective Bias in Text
Natural language processing tools to detect biases
Practice
French Convention Citoyenne on Climate Oversight
The French[ ](http://www.conventioncitoyennepourleclimat.fr/)Convention[ ](http://www.conventioncitoyennepourleclimat.fr/)Citoyenne uses multi-stakeholder oversight committees to verify neutrality of facilitation.
Related goals and research questions
Goal: That neutrality can be defined and measured across different assembly components.
How can we translate mathematical bias guarantees from algorithmic settings to real-world human facilitation?
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What are the appropriate metrics for measuring neutrality in information presentation, question framing, and synthesis?
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How do we define and measure neutrality when legitimate value disagreements exist about what constitutes "neutral"?
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How can we develop standardized neutrality assessment tools that can be applied across different cultural contexts?
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How can we use third party verification of AI systems used in deliberation, using deliberation?
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Goal: Product "Neutrality dashboards" that provide real-time feedback to facilitators and organizers.
There are no related research questions at the moment.