Who Is Accountable When Crime Prediction AI Shows Bias?
Many industries have their own version of the same dilemma: When driverless cars kill their first pedestrian, who should be blamed? When that automated doctor fouls up your diagnosis, who do we point the finger at? And when innocent people are sent to jail because...Researchers Using Body Cam Footage and Machine Learning to Gain Insight on Police Interactions
Police interactions are complex. They aren’t always clear or easy to dissect, even after the fact and with the benefit of footage. But one group of researchers believe they can use machine learning to dissect body cam footage and help police departments train...Disappearing Data: Five Senators Question FBI Over Missing Crime Stats
More than three months after FBI Director Christopher Wray promised to restore the missing crime tables in the FBI’s annual crime report, the data is nowhere to be seen. The FBI has released an annual Crime in the United States report every year since 1930. Collated...When Big Data Isn’t An Expert Witness: Risk Assessment Algorithms May Not Be Fit For Courtroom, Say Researchers
Big Data could be viewed as a great fit for the courtroom. The legal system is built on rules derived from cases decided in the past and whose precedence is still honored today. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning systems are trained along the same lines as...High-Profile Tech Startup Secretly Tested Its Predictive Policing In New Orleans
Palantir Technologies, founded by Peter Thiel and one of the most valuable privately-held companies in Silicon Valley, is named after magical stones in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth that allowed its users to see great distances even through solid rock. One unfortunate...Listen to Our Civic Development Podcast!
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