Impact based fairness framework for socio-technical decision making

Avoiding bias and understanding the consequences of artificial intelligence used in decision making is of high importance to avoid mistreatment and unintended harm. This paper aims to present an impact focused approach to model the information flow of a socio-technical decision system for analysis of bias and fairness. The framework roots otherwise abstract technical accuracy and bias measures in stakeholder effects and forms a scaffold around which further analysis of the socio-technical system and its components can be coordinated. Two example use-cases are presented and analysed.