Youth as Peer Auditors: Engaging Teenagers with Algorithm Auditing of Machine Learning Applications
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| author | Morales-Navarro, Luis Kafai, Yasmin B. Konda, Vedya Metaxa, Danaë |
| author_facet | Morales-Navarro, Luis Kafai, Yasmin B. Konda, Vedya Metaxa, Danaë |
| contents | As artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) applications become more pervasive in youth lives, supporting them to interact, design, and evaluate applications is crucial. This paper positions youth as auditors of their peers' ML-powered applications to better understand algorithmic systems' opaque inner workings and external impacts. In a two-week workshop, 13 youth (ages 14-15) designed and audited ML-powered applications. We analyzed pre/post clinical interviews in which youth were presented with auditing tasks. The analyses show that after the workshop all youth identified algorithmic biases and inferred dataset and model design issues. Youth also discussed algorithmic justice issues and ML model improvements. Furthermore, youth reflected that auditing provided them new perspectives on model functionality and ideas to improve their own models. This work contributes (1) a conceptualization of algorithm auditing for youth; and (2) empirical evidence of the potential benefits of auditing. We discuss potential uses of algorithm auditing in learning and child-computer interaction research. |
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| spellingShingle | Youth as Peer Auditors: Engaging Teenagers with Algorithm Auditing of Machine Learning Applications Morales-Navarro, Luis Kafai, Yasmin B. Konda, Vedya Metaxa, Danaë Human-Computer Interaction Computers and Society K.3.0 As artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) applications become more pervasive in youth lives, supporting them to interact, design, and evaluate applications is crucial. This paper positions youth as auditors of their peers' ML-powered applications to better understand algorithmic systems' opaque inner workings and external impacts. In a two-week workshop, 13 youth (ages 14-15) designed and audited ML-powered applications. We analyzed pre/post clinical interviews in which youth were presented with auditing tasks. The analyses show that after the workshop all youth identified algorithmic biases and inferred dataset and model design issues. Youth also discussed algorithmic justice issues and ML model improvements. Furthermore, youth reflected that auditing provided them new perspectives on model functionality and ideas to improve their own models. This work contributes (1) a conceptualization of algorithm auditing for youth; and (2) empirical evidence of the potential benefits of auditing. We discuss potential uses of algorithm auditing in learning and child-computer interaction research. |
| title | Youth as Peer Auditors: Engaging Teenagers with Algorithm Auditing of Machine Learning Applications |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Computers and Society K.3.0 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05874 |