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Fairness policy

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The per-system record, fixed before results are seen, of what fairness means for that system: the protected attributes in each jurisdiction and where their values come from, the chosen metric and why, the threshold, the minimum cell size, the multiple-comparison correction and the approver. The fairness eval suite is judged against it.

Developed in
ch. 16, Fairness and explainability in the stack
ch. 05, Pattern: Fairness Eval Suite
Chapters
ch. 05, Patterns · ch. 16, Fairness & XAI
Contrast with
Fairness
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

One chapter of the Body of Knowledge uses the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

One pattern page uses the term.

  • Counterfactual flip test

    A test that changes only a protected attribute in an input, or swaps identity terms in otherwise identical prompts, and measures how often the outcome or the…

  • Proxy scan

    A test that trains a model to predict a protected attribute from a system's features; features that predict it strongly are flagged as proxies to justify or…

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

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Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Fairness policy. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/fairness-policy. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026fairnesspolicy,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Fairness policy}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/fairness-policy}
}