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Investigation: How Randomization in AI Allocation Strategies Can Lead to More Equitable Outcomes Machine-learning models are becoming more prevalent in organizations for the efficient distribution of scarce resources and o pportunities. These models are employed, for instance, to streamline resume screening processes in recruitment or to rank kidney transplant patients in hospitals according to their chances of survival. To ensure fairness in model  predictions during de ployment, users ty pically focus on minimizing bias. This often involves strategies such as altering the decision-making features of the model or adjusting the calibration of its out put scores. Researchers from MIT and Northeastern University challenge the adequacy of current fairness methods in tackling structural injustices and underlying uncertainties. Their new  pa per on the arXiv pre print server reveals that systematically randomizing model decisions can im prove fairness in certain scenar...