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Alleged Racial Disparities in DOJ's Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool: A Call for Responsible AI

January 26, 2022

The Department of Justice's inmate-recidivism risk assessment tool, PATTERN, has been reported to exhibit racially biased results, misclassifying risk levels for inmates of color. This incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI and highlights the need for guardrails within our AI systems. To help drive change towards safe and secure AI, consider joining us JOIN US. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
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Alleged harmed parties
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Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/154

Data source

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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.

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