Move forward or break ranks: Workshopping re-idealized explanation obligations to foster fundamental change and resistance to oppression

Aviva de Groot

Move forward or break ranks: Workshopping re-idealized explanation obligations to foster fundamental change and resistance to oppression

Aviva de Groot

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This paper presents a set of ‘duties of care’ that can be used to guide decision and explanation processes in complex socio-technical-legal environments. The duties support and strengthen existing explanation laws across legal domains. Informed by critical legal, philosophical, and technological insights, the model supports the conscientious challenges of decision makers and explainers who wish to avoid complicity in orchestrated harms. The duties support them and anyone working on fair decision making to tease out their knowledge-and-information needs and whether these are organized for, and which knowledge/deficits should raise alarm and are cause for resistance. The model was workshopped in two public agencies to test its ‘fit’ and usefulness in this salient decision-making sphere. This paper reports on the first impressions of what it takes to bring fundamental research directly into a practice context, and offers the workshop design to anyone interested to use in their own work. 1

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of machine learning research
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the fourth European workshop on algorithmic fairness (EWAF’25)
Editors	Neil Lawrence
Publisher	JMLR
Number of pages	19
Volume	294
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 2025
Event	European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness - Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 30 Jun 2025 → 2 Jul 2025 https://proceedings.mlr.press/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
Publisher	JMLR
ISSN (Electronic)	2640-3498

Workshop

Workshop	European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness
Abbreviated title	EWAF’25
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	30/06/25 → 2/07/25
Internet address	https://proceedings.mlr.press/

Keywords

transparency
explanation
justification
justice
epistemic injustice
racism
discrimination
resistance
ADM

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de Groot, A. (2025). Move forward or break ranks: Workshopping re-idealized explanation obligations to foster fundamental change and resistance to oppression. In N. Lawrence (Ed.), Proceedings of machine learning research : Proceedings of the fourth European workshop on algorithmic fairness (EWAF’25) (Vol. 294). (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research). JMLR. Advance online publication.

de Groot, Aviva. / Move forward or break ranks : Workshopping re-idealized explanation obligations to foster fundamental change and resistance to oppression. Proceedings of machine learning research : Proceedings of the fourth European workshop on algorithmic fairness (EWAF’25) . editor / Neil Lawrence. Vol. 294 JMLR, 2025. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research).

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de Groot, A 2025, Move forward or break ranks: Workshopping re-idealized explanation obligations to foster fundamental change and resistance to oppression. in N Lawrence (ed.), Proceedings of machine learning research : Proceedings of the fourth European workshop on algorithmic fairness (EWAF’25) . vol. 294, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, JMLR, European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness , Eindhoven, Netherlands, 30/06/25.

Move forward or break ranks: Workshopping re-idealized explanation obligations to foster fundamental change and resistance to oppression. / de Groot, Aviva.
Proceedings of machine learning research : Proceedings of the fourth European workshop on algorithmic fairness (EWAF’25) . ed. / Neil Lawrence. Vol. 294 JMLR, 2025. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research).

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de Groot A. Move forward or break ranks: Workshopping re-idealized explanation obligations to foster fundamental change and resistance to oppression. In Lawrence N, editor, Proceedings of machine learning research : Proceedings of the fourth European workshop on algorithmic fairness (EWAF’25) . Vol. 294. JMLR. 2025. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research). Epub 2025.

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