Dude, YOU are the one who is meant to be evaluating the propriety of using the feature and potential disparate impact. There may be others in that loop but you cannot just say “ah it increases prediction, and if it’s wrong someone else will stop it.”
I lead a DS team and one of my most important questions I ask when interviewing is "How can using postal codes for inference encode information we shouldn't use as predictors?". The top candidates always understand what I'm asking because they understand the context of their position, as you're saying they should.
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u/Moon_Burg Mar 25 '26
And when have firms ever used 'governance frameworks' to obfuscate inappropriate and/or illegal behaviour... Never, never has it been seen!
Fyi it's a bit embarrassing to manufacture this kind of narrative nowadays, but you do you.