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How AI Learns Bias from Legal Case Law
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how AI systems used in legal research and predictive policing can learn bias from historical case law. They discuss a specific example: an AI tool trained on decades of court decisions that predicted reoffending rates, but mirrored the racial disparities already present in sentencing. The hosts break down how biased data from past rulings—shaped by systemic inequities—can perpetuate unfair outcomes in bail decisions, sentencing, and parole. They also touch on the challenges of de-biasing legal datasets, the role of human…
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