Will the Gulf's push for its own AI succeed? That, and US tech giants' plans to spend more than $600bn this year alone. Can the Gulf states capture some of the US's tech dominance for themselves? I spent most of last week in Doha at the Web Summit Qatar, the Gulf's new version of the popular annual tech conference. One theme stood out among the speeches I watched and the conversations I had: sovereignty.

We examine whether these static fairness constraints mitigate or worsen the qualification disparity in the long-run. Our work can be applied to a variety of applications such as recruitment and bank lending. In these applications, aninstitute observesindividuals' features (e.g., credit scores), and makes myopic decisions(e.g., issue loans) by assessing such features against some variables of interest (e.g., ability torepay) which are unknown and unobservable tothe institute when making decisions.

We present a case study on malware detection--a binary classification problem on byte sequences where classifier evasion is a well-established threat model.

How should we assess this possibility?