Past Member

Chelsea Barabas

Former Research Assistant
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  • MAS Affiliated Research Assistants

Chelsea examines the spread of algorithmic decision making tools in the US criminal justice system. She works with an amazing group of interdisciplinary researchers, government officials and community organizers to unpack and transform mainstream narratives around criminal justice reform and data-driven decision making.

Article Research

Beyond Bias: Contextualizing “ethical AI” within the history of exploitation and innovation in medical research

"It’s time for us to move beyond 'bias' as the anchor point for our efforts to build ethical and fair algorithms."
Publication Research

Interventions over Predictions: Reframing the Ethical Debate for Actuarial Risk Assessment

Chelsea Barabas, Madars Virza, Karthik Dinakar, Joichi Ito, Jonathan Zittrain ; Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, PMLR 81:62-76, 2018.
Post Research

Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns

By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar, and Colin DoyleTwenty-seven prominent  researchers from MIT,  Harvard, Princeton, NYU, …