AI engineering glossary · AI ethics law product
What is algorithmic recourse?
Algorithmic recourse: The ability of a person who received an unfavourable automated decision to take realistic actions that would change it. Good recourse needs suggested changes to be feasible for that person, for example not asking them to lower their age.
Algorithmic recourse: an example
A credit app tells a rejected user to clear one overdue payment and wait 60 days, which is something they can actually do.
Related terms
More AI ethics law product terms
- Anonymization
- Automated decision-making
- Automation bias
- Bias audit
- Bias mitigation
- Black-box model
- Conformity assessment
- Consent
Where you learn it
Algorithmic recourse is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.