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AI in Court Sentencing: Algorithms That Decide Your Fate
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the growing use of AI risk assessment tools in courtroom sentencing. They focus on the case of Paul Zilly, a man whose sentence was influenced by an algorithm's recidivism score, and the controversy surrounding COMPAS, the tool developed by Northpointe. The conversation unpacks how these algorithms learn bias from historical crime data, the impossibility of perfect fairness when the data itself is biased, and the profound implications of delegating moral judgment to a black box. The hosts discuss the need for transparency, the…
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