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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

Increasingly, one of those factors is what is known as a "risk assessment score" -- a number meant to predict whether or not the defendant will commit another crime in the future.

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 ...