[1606.08813] EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a "right to explanation" • /r/MachineLearning

Its frustrating when people claim algorithms are unbiased because while that may be true in some sense it ignores important problems that may arise in real world contexts where they are trained and deployed by fallible humans on imperfect data. For the most part I believe algorithms are unbiased. The main places these regulations are targeted, insurance companies, have unbiased ground truth on claims and accident rates. It's silly to ban machine learning across many industries and applications, instead of banning it in the specific places it is causing problems (which is what, exactly?) There are actually principled ways of addressing bias in data. These methods are totally broken.