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When AI Judges Your Parenting Fitness
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the growing use of AI in child welfare assessments, focusing on the Allegheny Family Screening Tool (AFST) in Pennsylvania. They discuss how predictive models score families for risk of child maltreatment, the documented racial disparities in these systems, and the tension between efficiency and fairness. The hosts examine a 2023 study showing that AFST can reduce foster care placements but also reinforces existing biases in reporting. They consider the broader implications of automating high-stakes decisions about family separation, and what safeguards…
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