Artificial Intelligence On Trial - Disruption Hub

Legal trials historically rely on a plethora of different steps before a conclusion is made. But for many cases heard in the US, it's not just juries, judges and magistrates who contribute to the final decision. COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions) is an artificially intelligent tool used as part of the sentencing process. It uses 137 different features to predict if a defendant will reoffend, and therefore influences the type and length of punishment. It makes sense to assume that this software had undergone strict trials itself.