Unfair Utilities and First Steps Towards Improving Them

Many fairness criteria constrain the policy or choice of predictors. In this work, we propose a different framework for thinking about fairness: Instead of constraining the policy or choice of predictors, we consider which utility a policy is optimizing for. We define value of information fairness and propose to not use utilities that do not satisfy this criterion. We describe how to modify a utility to satisfy this fairness criterion and discuss the consequences this might have on the corresponding optimal policies.

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