| > Fire them until they can demonstrate that the algorithm is not in fact biased like it appears to be. What do the non-black box findings from the area show? If blacks are a poor demographic in the area it might be true. (Crime tracks poverty, not race.) But yeah, certainly don't pay anyone for, or use, a black-box algorithm. > The score also takes into account answers to questions like whether the defendant's parents were separated or whether their parents were ever arrested. Those things are completely out of the defendant's control and are highly correlated with race. Even including those things in their score is damning. Nope. That's perfectly fair to look at. For instance, a broken family is another predictor. It's not fair, but being a victim increases your chance to offend. Similarly, the number one predictor of child sex crimes is to have suffered them yourself. If you have a child and are picking a babysitter, skip the one who was molested. fwiw, those things don't correlate with race, they correlate with poverty which correlates with race. Broken families are more likely to be poor and abusive. |