The Impact of AI on Justice Systems: Case Study - Keeping Innocent People in Jail

This AI incident sheds light on the potential risks of unregulated AI in justice systems, specifically highlighting cases where innocent individuals have been kept in jail due to AI-powered decision-making errors. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Are you concerned about trustworthy and responsible AI? Join us in advocating for AI governance and ensuring harm prevention. JOIN US

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/40

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

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