Reasoning With and About Bias

The widespread emergence of phenomena of biasBias is certainly among the most adverse impacts of new data-intensive sciences and technologies. The causes of such undesirable behaviours must be traced back to data themselves, as well as to certain design choices of machine learningMachine learning (ML) algorithms. The task of modelling biasBias from a logical point of view requires to extend the vast family of defeasible logicsDefeasible logic and logics for uncertain reasoningReasoninguncertain with ones that capture some few, fundamental properties of biased predictions. However, a logically grounded approach to machine learningMachine learning (ML) fairness is still at early stages in the literature. In this paper, we discuss current approaches to the topic, formulate general logical desiderata for logics to reason with and about biasBias, and provide a novel approach.