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Assessing Regulatory Fairness Through Machine Learning
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The perils of machine learning – using computers to identify and analyze data patterns, such as in facial recognition software – have made headlines lately. 
The perils of machine learning – using computers to identify and analyze data patterns, such as in facial recognition software – have made headlines lately. Yet the technology also holds promise to help enforce federal regulations, including those related to the environment, in a fair, transparent way, according to a new study(link is external) by Stanford researchers.
The analysis, published this week in the proceedings of the Association of Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency(link is external), evaluates machine learning techniques designed to support a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiative to reduce severe violations of the Clean Water Act. It reveals how two key elements of so-called algorithmic design influence which communities are targeted for compliance efforts and, consequently, who bears the burden of pollution violations. The analysis - funded through the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment's Realizing Environmental Innovation Program and Schmidt Futures - comes amid recent executive actions(link is external) calling for renewed focus on environmental justice.

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