AI, algorithms and Criminal Justice

IN AMERICA, computers have been used to assist bail and sentencing decisions for many years. Their proponents argue that the rigorous logic of an a... (2018)

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Computer algorithms now shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways. They predict i... (2022)

99% Invisible (podcast), 2017: "United Airlines flight 3411 was preparing to take off from Chicago when flight attendants discovered the plane was ... (2017)

Cathy O’Neil, book, 2017: “I don’t think mathematical models are inherently evil — I think it’s the ways they’re used that are evil,” says mathemat... (2017)

Business Insider, 2017, "Cathy O'Neil, a self-proclaimed math nerd and author of "Weapons of Math Destruction" explains how police data leads to b... (2017)

“These days algorithms have taken on an almost godlike power—they’re up in the (data) clouds, watching everything, passing judgment and leaving us ... (2017)

In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery. (2018)

Companies like Netflix, Facebook, and Uber deploy algorithms in search of greater efficiency. But when used to evaluate the powerful systems that j... (2018)

The creator of Scientific Content Analysis, or SCAN, says the tool can identify deception. Law enforcement has used his method for decades, even th... (2019)

Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more hum... (2020)

The Verge interviews Daniel L. Chen, a researcher at both the Toulouse School of Economics and University of Toulouse Faculty of Law, who suggests ... (2019)

More than 2,400 police agencies have entered contracts with Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition firm, according to comments made by Cl... (2020)

Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently. (2020)

Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime. As the Tampa Bay Times reports,... (2020)

by Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz, Kate Crawford :: SSRN In a research paper titled “Dirty Data, Bad Predictions,” lead author Rashida Richa... (2020)