Listen "Technology and Justice - Embedding our past in our future"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode, the hosts begin the discussion on the increasing use of mathematical algorithms to crunch Big Data to predict future outcomes. This data, however, includes societal biases and embed our flawed past into our future lives. Today: Criminal Justice and the self-fulfilling prophecy of who is a risk to society. LINKS IN THIS EPISODE Follow Ellis Conversations on Twitter Follow Judge Ronald Ellis on Twitter Follow Jamil Ellis on Twitter Follow Jamil Ellis on LinkedIn Check out Unified Ground Follow Ellis Conversations on Twitter Check out BlackHistoryChatGPT Pro Publica Article on Risk Assessment of arrestees https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing Interview of Jack Maple I Government Technology about COMSTAT https://www.govtech.com/magazines/gt/Jack-Maple-Betting-on-Intelligence.html Times article about Newark’s problem with racial profiling https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/us/politics/cory-booker-2020-criminal-justice.html Justice Tech Download (Great Newsletter) https://www.justicetech.download/ Coded Bias https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/coded-bias-full-film/ Weapons of math destruction by Cathy O'Neil