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May 24, 2016 08:03 am PDT
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Algorithmic risk-assessment: hiding racism behind "empirical" black boxes
Courts around America and the world increasingly rely on software based risk-assessment software in determining bail and sentencing; the systems require the accused to answer more than a hundred questions which are fed into a secret model that spits out a single-digit "risk score" that courts use to decide who to lock up, and for how long. (more…)
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