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Public reason concerns justification addressed to people affected by a decision. Binns’s application asks more than whether a system accurately predicts an outcome.
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Guided course · Module 14 · Lesson 88
A map you can keep revising
The garden dispute from lesson 1 returns, now examined through Socratic questioning and public reason. The course ends by building a source-grounded comparison that records disagreement and stays open to revision.
Guided course · Module 14 · Lesson 85
Who is responsible when a decision is automated?
When a ranking system decides who gets a training place, who must answer for the decision? With Binns and Nissenbaum, the lesson asks what prediction, explanation and human review leave unresolved about justification and repair.