Claim LD08-SL-C13 (v1.0)
Of the papers published at the FAccT conference from 2018 to 2021, 61.3% were labelled STEM and 29.7% humanities, social sciences and arts; summarising a survey of conference affiliates, the authors list concerns including “out-sized industry connections.”
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- A measure of industry funding or authorship at the conference, which the study did not count
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Laufer, Jain, Cooper, Kleinberg & Heidari, “Four Years of FAccT: A Reflexive, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Research Contributions, Shortcomings, and Future Prospects,” FAccT 2022
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (as printed: “Peer-reviewed conference paper”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-16
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD08-SL-C13--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Laufer, Jain, Cooper, Kleinberg & Heidari, “Four Years of FAccT: A Reflexive, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Research Contributions, Shortcomings, and Future Prospects,” FAccT 2022” → SRC-SL-LAUFER-ET-AL-FACCT-2022--v1.0 — Laufer, Jain, Cooper, Kleinberg & Heidari, “Four Years of FAccT: A Reflexive, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Research Contributions, Shortcomings, and Future Prospects,” FAccT 2022; class PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD08-SL-C13 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | Of the papers published at the FAccT conference from 2018 to 2021, 61.3% were labelled STEM and 29.7% humanities, social sciences and arts; summarising a survey of conference affiliates, the authors list concerns including “out-sized industry connections.” | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | A — Who produces knowledge about AI | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Laufer, Jain, Cooper, Kleinberg & Heidari, “Four Years of FAccT: A Reflexive, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Research Contributions, Shortcomings, and Future Prospects,” FAccT 2022 | source_ids: SRC-SL-LAUFER-ET-AL-FACCT-2022 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed conference paper | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | One interdisciplinary conference on fairness, accountability and transparency, 2018–2021 | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Manual coding and topic modelling of papers; citation network; survey of affiliates | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | 224 papers; 60 survey respondents (6.5% response rate) | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Not applicable | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Not applicable | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | 61.3% STEM and 29.7% humanities, social sciences and arts; fairness the dominant topic (69%); survey concerns about industry connections | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | The disciplinary make-up of a leading venue for research on AI’s social effects | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | A measure of industry funding or authorship at the conference, which the study did not count | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Read in arXiv version 1; one venue in its first years; small self-selected survey, 75% of respondents from STEM; respondents’ views were mixed and the quoted phrase is the authors’ summary | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | LD08-SL-C12 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | Global / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not analysed in this claim | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-08, D3 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | A count of industry authorship and funding at FAccT and AIES | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-16 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-08 (LIVING_DEBATE); D3 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 d9ab4b9809b36e37ccc5cb52290bc4971697b5f22b9c54f8bce5d7d289db15da.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C13 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-16; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 13 — LD08-SL-C13” SHA-256
96ff4d66be346d8c41ade95dfc3225d27a31449245fe3a04b9dc82746d6f5e78; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD08-SL-C13--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C13 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-08 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C13 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-16); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-LAUFER-ET-AL-FACCT-2022--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 13 — LD08-SL-C13 cites "Laufer, Jain, Cooper, Kleinberg & Heidari, “Four Years of FAccT: A Reflexive, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Research Contributions, Shortcomings, and Future Prospects,” FAccT 2022"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-LAUFER-ET-AL-FACCT-2022--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Laufer, Jain, Cooper, Kleinberg & Heidari, “Four Years of FAccT: A Reflexive, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Research Contributions, Shortcomings, and Future Prospects,” FAccT 2022".