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How AI Models Inherit Bias from Court Sentencing Data
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how AI models used in court sentencing can inherit racial and socioeconomic biases from historical sentencing data. They focus on the COMPAS algorithm, a risk assessment tool used in U.S. courts, which was found to falsely flag Black defendants as high-risk at nearly twice the rate of white defendants. The hosts discuss a 2024 study from the University of Chicago that showed how retraining the model on clean data reduced this disparity by 60 percent. They also examine the broader implications for AI in the justice system…
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