I think the ML bias folks are stuck with too hard a problem, since they’ve basically decided that all of justice can/should (or should not) be remedied through algorithms. As a result the technical folks have run into all the problems philosophy never solved, and so “policy” can only do the most obvious interventions (limit use of inaccurate facial recognition) which get total researcher consensus. (Not to mention the subfield is left-coded and thus doesn’t win the bipartisan natsec-tech crowd.) That said, 5 years was certainly enough to get their scholars heavily embedded throughout a presidential administration.
I think the ML bias folks are stuck with too hard a problem, since they’ve basically decided that all of justice can/should (or should not) be remedied through algorithms. As a result the technical folks have run into all the problems philosophy never solved, and so “policy” can only do the most obvious interventions (limit use of inaccurate facial recognition) which get total researcher consensus. (Not to mention the subfield is left-coded and thus doesn’t win the bipartisan natsec-tech crowd.) That said, 5 years was certainly enough to get their scholars heavily embedded throughout a presidential administration.