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Predicting recidivism – the questionable role of algorithms in the criminal justice system
30th Mar 2023As AI becomes increasingly popular in courts internationally, John Gooley of Stacks Law Firm questions the algorithm that predicted an 18-year-old African-American woman who took a child’s bike to be at ‘high risk’ of reoffending, while assessing a 41-year-old white man convicted of armed robbery as ‘low risk’.