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Algorithmic Impact Assessments and Accountability: The Co-construction of Impacts

Jacob Metcalf; Emanuel Moss; Elizabeth Anne Watkins; Ranjit Singh; Madeleine Clare Elish · Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '21), 735–746 · 2021

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Type: Article
Author: Jacob Metcalf; Emanuel Moss; Elizabeth Anne Watkins; Ranjit Singh; Madeleine Clare Elish
Identifier: DOI 10.1145/3442188.3445935
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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TheoryImpact assessments do not simply discover impacts: impacts are co-constructed in accountability relationships, and assessments risk producing organisationally convenient metrics distant from people's actual harms; because assessors depend on information that only system developers hold, regimes relying on their good faith can be undermined by their incentives.