A.I. Is Sending People to Jail — and Getting It Wrong

Using historical data to train risk assessment tools could mean that machines are copying the mistakes of the past

By Karen Hao

A.I. might not seem to have a huge personal impact if your most frequent brush with machine-learning algorithms is through Facebook’s news feed…

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