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The COMPAS Algorithm That Locked People Away
In the premiere episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna launch the show by drilling into a single case: the COMPAS recidivism algorithm used in U.S. courtrooms. They walk through the 2016 ProPublica investigation that found the tool was nearly twice as likely to falsely flag Black defendants as future criminals than white defendants — while also being less accurate overall than a random person on the internet guessing. Lucas explains how COMPAS worked, why the error rates mattered in real sentencing decisions, and why the algorithm's 'black box' design made it impossible for…
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