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Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?

Arvind Narayanan · 11 Nov 2024

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    The target variable an algorithm is trained to predict matters more for fairness than which input features it uses.

    Their wordsIn reality, the target variable - the output - is often more important for fairness than the features.

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    Utilitarian reasoning has become dominant across many domains, including medical ethics and public health, over recent decades.

    Their wordsFor this reason, utilitarianism has been ascendant in many, many domains over the last few decades, including medical ethics and public health.

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