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AI Researchers Condemn Predictive Crime Software, Citing Racial Bias, Flawed Methods
A coalition of more than 1,000 researchers, academics, and experts in artificial intelligence condemned soon-to-be-published research claims of software purportedly able to predict whether one will become a criminal.
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A coalition of more than 1,000 researchers, academics, and experts in artificial intelligence condemned soon-to-be-published research claims of predictive crime software.
The opponents sent an open letter to the publisher Springer, asking that it reconsider publishing the controversial research.
Harrisburg University researchers Roozbeh Sadeghian and Jonathan W. Korn claim their facial recognition software can forecast whether a person will become a criminal, but the coalition expressed doubts on their findings, citing "unsound scientific premises, research, and methods, which numerous studies spanning our respective disciplines have debunked over the years."
The letter from the coalition said, "The uncritical acceptance of default assumptions inevitably leads to discriminatory design in algorithmic systems, reproducing ideas which normalize social hierarchies and legitimize violence against marginalized groups."
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