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Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 4 days ago

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Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/51252396

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I didn’t realize that “being black” counted as a “behavior”.
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  If the training data is racist, so is the AI.

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