Machine Bias
▻https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing
There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter. Borden and a friend grabbed the bike and scooter and tried to ride them down the street in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs. Just as the 18-year-old girls were realizing they were too big for the tiny (...)