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Elena | AI Product Leader's avatar

This is a vital perspective, Marcela! 💯

Moving beyond AUC to proactive fairness frameworks is how we build integrity into these systems from the start. Performance metrics are just the beginning; the real work is auditing for the outcomes that actually affect people.

Looking forward to the rest of the series!

🎈Noemi from ME TIME 🎈's avatar

This is such a complex topic and a career of the future if governments start to understand the importance of creating fair and ethical AI systems

Marcela Distefano's avatar

Thanks Noemi! It means a lot coming from you!

Abedalhady Alshebli's avatar

People often optimize the metric instead of the system — which improves the numbers without improving the real outcome.

Marcela Distefano's avatar

Exactly Abedalhady! I am fully aware that incorporating these metrics from the design phase can be perceived as an exhaustive, and sometimes tedious, process. However, experience shows that bypassing this initial technical analysis can lead to disastrous consequences, not only operationally but also in terms of ethics and institutional accountability. Assessing outcome fairness before deployment is not merely an option; it is a critical safeguard.