Crime-Predicting AI Fares Worse than Humans in Repeat Offender Study, and It's Racist Too

The 21st century has witnessed AI (Artificial Intelligence) accomplishing tasks like handily defeating humans at chess or teaching them foreign languages quickly. A more advanced task for the computer would be predicting an offender's likelihood of committing another crime. That's the job for an AI system called COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions). But it turns out that tool is no better than an average bloke, and can be racist too. Well, that's exactly what a research team has discovered after extensively studying the AI system which is widely used by judicial institutions.