As US courts continue using proprietary 3rd-party recidivism algorithms to contribute to decisions of sentencing, bail, and guilt, justices ponder consequences
Adam Liptak / New York Times : Tweets: @mims , @aheineike , @davidmanheim , @orinkerr , and @nytimes Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : This is an extraordinarily bad idea and should be illegal: Sent to Prison by a Software Program's Secret Algorithms http://www.nytimes.com/... Amy Heineike / @aheineike : Key debates in AI. Should proprietary algorithms be allowed to influence sentencing? http://www.nytimes.com/... David Manheim / @davidmanheim : The problem here isn't that it is “AI” (it isn't.) It's that the algorithm used to generate the evidence is a corporate secret. cc: @zeynep http://twitter.com/... Orin Kerr / @orinkerr : If you're the sentencing judge, how can you rely on a software program's prediction w/o knowing how it works? http://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : Using artificial intelligence in the courtroom sounds like science fiction, but it's already happened in Wisconsin http://www.nytimes.com/...