The Role of Tech Companies in Overseeing and Designing Ethical Systems

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are used across numerous Facebook products. Facebook has been actively developing processes for the measurement of its machine learning and AI systems to ensure that they are fair for users. This presentation focuses on the ways that Facebook scales tools and frameworks for measuring responsible uses of AI, highlighting clear processes and insights for ensuring fairness across large scale systems that impact billions of users. It will also provide an overview of algorithmic fairness, including an explanation of the intricacies within large-scale systems that make them vulnerable to biases and the multiple ways of measuring fairness.