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.”

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Claim LD08-SL-C13 (v1.0)

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Claim type: Estimate
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with a qualifier
Verification state: Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: A measure of industry funding or authorship at the conference, which the study did not count
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
Source (as cited): 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: Peer-reviewed conference paper (recorded as “Peer-reviewed conference paper”)
Institutional position: Independent academic (Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University)
Maturity of the evidence: Emerging evidence
Recorded date: 16 October 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

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Laufer, Jain, Cooper, Kleinberg & Heidari, “Four Years of FAccT: A Reflexive, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Research Contributions, Shortcomings, and Future Prospects,” FAccT 2022 (Peer-reviewed conference paper)
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Claim type (coded): ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY
Source type (coded): PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER
Maturity (coded): EMERGING

#	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)

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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” → Laufer et al. (2022), “Four Years of FAccT: A Reflexive…” (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)

Cited by Living Debate versions

Who can know about AI? Epistemic dependence and jurisdiction over the field (v0.1) LD-08

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SocioLens project. (2026, October 16). 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.” [Claim LD08-SL-C13, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld08-sl-c13/v1.0/

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  title = {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.”},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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  note = {Claim LD08-SL-C13, version v1.0}
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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; fixture fixtures/authored/claims/LD08-SL-C13--v1.0.

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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".