CRJan 5, 2015
Programs as Actual Causes: A Building Block for Accountability
arXiv:1501.00747v2
Originality Synthesis-oriented
AI Analysis
This work tackles the problem of accountability in AI and computing for developers and policymakers, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing causal reasoning concepts.
The paper addresses the challenge of attributing accountability in computational systems by proposing a framework that treats programs as actual causes, but the abstract does not provide specific results or concrete numbers.
An updated version of this paper is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01131