Researchers created an algorithm that predicts risks of biased, overly punitive sentencing. The tool performs with similar accuracy — and similar limits — to risk assessment algorithms already ...

Judges are using algorithms to justify doing what they already want. Algorithmic risk scores might be obscuring a broader issue with how the judicial system works.

The news: A new study has found that risk-assessment algorithms are sometimes better than people at predicting whether a criminal will be rearrested within two years of leaving jail. But neither ...

The CPORT algorithm, commonly used to estimate the risk that a child pornography offender will offend again, hasn’t been validated for use in the U.S.

AI might not seem to have a huge personal impact if your most frequent brush with machine-learning algorithms is through Facebook’s news feed or Google’s search rankings. But at the Data for ...

Like the clairvoyants in the film “Minority Report,” computer-generated risk assessment algorithms aim to predict the likelihood that someone will commit crime in the future. These risk ...

For Julia Angwin, a technology reporter at ProPublica who has spent the past year focusing her reporting efforts on COMPAS and other so-called “risk assessment algorithms,” the Loomis case is ...

ICE rigged its algorithms to keep immigrants in jail, claims lawsuit. ... The Risk Classification Assessment (RCA) analyzes a subject’s criminal history, family ties, and other data.

The preoperative risk assessment algorithm can identify ovarian lesions with a strong likelihood of being non-cancerous and suitable for ovary-preserving surgery. The use of a consensus-based ...