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Bias testing and fairness monitoring

Pre-deployment subgroup performance testing plus ongoing production monitoring for disparate outcomes across protected characteristics.

  • detective
  • fairness
  • bias
  • monitoring

What it does

Tests a model's performance and decisions broken down by protected characteristic before launch, then continues monitoring the same breakdown in production to catch drift into disparate impact.

Where it fits

Mitigates disparate-impact-monitoring-gap, proxy-discrimination-via-correlated-features, and inadequate-fairness-testing-before-deployment together.

Risks this mitigates

The risks this control addresses, ranked by effectiveness.

Framework and clause references

FrameworkClauseTitle
ISO/IEC 42001:2023Annex A.5Assessing impacts of AI systems
NIST Generative AI Profile (NIST AI 600-1)Harmful BiasHarmful Bias or Homogenization