Ben Waber reviewed Auditing AI by Alondra Nelson
A Solid Introduction
4 stars
This authors list is a veritable who's-who of the ethical AI space, and this shows in the straightforward, insightful approach they take to working through the ins and outs of the AI auditing process. Most of the cases presented here will be familiar to anyone who's already in the space, and if you've read some of the literature you'll probably be most interested in the more practical discussions of AI auditing, although those sections are fairly surface level due to the length of the book. I wish there was more time spent on identifying auditing targets and the implications of choosing easier to audit systems/small players in the space versus more substantive but potentially challenging targets. I'm biased since I know pymetrics' founder well, but the section on that was weirdly unfair criticism given the legal limits of the HR space (unsure if the authors have experience there), and the …
This authors list is a veritable who's-who of the ethical AI space, and this shows in the straightforward, insightful approach they take to working through the ins and outs of the AI auditing process. Most of the cases presented here will be familiar to anyone who's already in the space, and if you've read some of the literature you'll probably be most interested in the more practical discussions of AI auditing, although those sections are fairly surface level due to the length of the book. I wish there was more time spent on identifying auditing targets and the implications of choosing easier to audit systems/small players in the space versus more substantive but potentially challenging targets. I'm biased since I know pymetrics' founder well, but the section on that was weirdly unfair criticism given the legal limits of the HR space (unsure if the authors have experience there), and the cut and paste example of the Amazon hiring algorithm (which was never used) also demonstrated that some of these examples weren't considered too deeply. To be clear, this is a great book and since I know some of the authors is more meant as constructive criticism. Highly recommend