Justice Department’s Recidivism Risk Algorithm PATTERN Allegedly Caused Persistent Disparities Along Racial Lines
January 26, 2022
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Matched TAIM controls
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- GOVERN 3.1 — similarity 0.715, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
- MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.706, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
- MEASURE 3.1 — similarity 0.699, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →
- Alleged deployer
- us-department-of-justice
- Alleged developer
- us-department-of-justice
- Alleged harmed parties
- inmates-of-color
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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