Fairness through blindness is the most robust finding in the field

Evidence

“The most robust fact in the research area,” Hardt says, “is that fairness through blindness doesn’t work. That’s the most established and most robust fact in the entire research area.” — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 299

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts an intuitive assumption widely held beyond ML, echoing the earlier Boston Symphony Orchestra gender-blind admission case. — connects to: Partial debiasing can make bias problem worse by hiding it — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 210
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 299

Related

• Partial debiasing can make bias problem worse by hiding it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Partial debiasing can make bias problem worse by hiding it #contradicts (0.60) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 210