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AI Systems That Flag Your Child to Child Protective Services
Episode 9 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines automated child welfare risk assessment algorithms. Lucas and Luna walk through the Allegheny Family Screening Tool (AFST), one of the earliest and most studied predictive models used by child protection agencies. They discuss how the tool scores calls to hotlines, the bias critiques that emerged, and what the data actually shows about false positives and racial disparity. The episode also explores broader questions: should risk scores replace human judgment in such high-stakes family interventions? What happens when a model decides a home is…
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