Fair Fund?

Automated Evaluations of Deservingness in
Recommendation Systems and Large Language Models

Martin Lukk

Data Sciences Institute / University of Toronto

April 8, 2026

Who Should Get What
and Why?

What Shapes Deservingness Judgments?

Substantive Domains

Who Should Get What
and Why,

According to Machines?

Automated Decision-Making in the Wild

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Automated Decision-Making in the Wild

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