Without guardrails, artificial intelligence can just as easily calcify sub-optimal practices, threaten due process, and erode ...

Justice is supposed to be “blind.” But is race blindness always the best way to achieve racial equality? An algorithm to predict recidivism among prison populations is underscoring that debate.

Confidential and secure: AI must protect sensitive personal data, preserve privacy, and operate transparently. Effective and helpful: Tools should only be adopted when they demonstrably improve ...

In courtrooms across the country, judges turn to computer algorithms when deciding whether defendants awaiting trial must pay bail or can be released without payment. The increasing use of such ...

A panel including legal and artificial intelligence (AI) experts made the case today that algorithms used as evidence in court decisions and to influence other criminal justice decisions should be ...

Conventionally the process of removing a person’s criminal record is undertaken manually, a process that takes time and one where errors can occur. The purpose of the new algorithm is to make the ...

The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that it could result in ...

In today’s world, computerized algorithms are everywhere: They can decide whether you get a job interview, how much credit you access, and what news you see. And, increasingly, it’s not just private ...

Should an algorithm help make decisions about whom to release before trial, whom to release from prison on parole or who receives rehabilitative services? They’re already informing criminal justice ...

As summer comes to a close, local governments are returning to their council chambers and facing massive pressures. Municipal budgets are losing hundreds of millions in revenue in the wake of ...