The justice system is too inconsistent. AI can help. - The Atlantic

The system for granting asylum in the U.S. has long been a political point of contention. Democrats and Republicans debate how liberal or restrictive its rules should be, but evidence suggests that the fate of some asylum seekers may be less influenced by the rules than by something far more arbitrary: the judge they're assigned. A 2007 study titled "Refugee Roulette" found that one judge granted asylum to only 5 percent of Colombian applicants, whereas another--working in the same building and applying the same rules--granted it to 88 percent. Asylum is by no means the only part of our legal system where such discrepancies arise. In a landmark 1974 study, 50 judges were given an identical set of facts about a hypothetical heroin dealer.