{
  "id": 7569,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06984v2",
  "title": "Masking Causality and Conditional Dependence",
  "summary": "Many regulatory and analytic problems require that a prohibited variable influence a decision only through a designated allowable channel -- a conditional-independence requirement that arises in path-specific fairness, the handling of classified information, and the regulation of trading on non-public information, among other settings. Such requirements may be enforced either stratum-by-stratum or, more commonly (and more efficiently), through a single averaged constraint on the conditional effe",
  "authors": "Zou Yang, Sophia Xiao, Bijan Mazaheri",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "bias-fairness,regulation",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-03-07T02:03:14.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:21.046Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/7569",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06984v2",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}