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Science & Technology
Real-life Minority Report? AI predicts arrests within three years of a prisoner being released on parole based on 91 variables like race and age
2023-01-10
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Scientists trained the AI to analyze 91 variables to determine if an inmate is at high or low risk of rearrests after being released on parole
    ...which means the AI was given the programmers’ prejudices and assumptions.
    Scientists from The University of California, Davis
  • The variables include age, race, sentences and previous arrests

  • The AI was tested on data from the New York State Parole Board from 2012 to 2015, a time when more than 19,000 inmates had parole hearings

  • More than 4,000 were released, but the AI found the parole board should have released nearly 50 percent more
    Can we assume the programmers hail from the left side of the spectrum?
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  about 80% of parolees are arrested now within 5 years

the AI perhaps can ID people not likely to re-offend
Posted by: lord garth   2023-01-10 13:57  

#2  Did the data account for the NYC policy that allows you to be arrested but not jailed 40 times in one day?
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-01-10 12:20  

#1  Prob shouldn't only address minorities.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-01-10 10:25  

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