A Popular Algorithm Is No Better at Predicting Crimes Than Random People

Date: 
2018-01-17
Publisher: 
The Atlantic
Author: 
Ed Young

The COMPAS tool is widely used to assess a defendant’s risk of committing more crimes. Scholarly studies shows that the automatic tool is not much more accurate or fair than a coin toss.

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