Phys.org

Algorithms were supposed to reduce bias in criminal justice, but do they?

Algorithms were supposed to remake the American justice system. Championed as dispassionate, computer-driven calculations about risk, crime, and recidivism, their deployment in everything from ...
Phys.org

Using algorithms to determine sentencing may reduce length of prison sentences

American prisons and jails currently hold more than 2 million people—many of them jailed while awaiting trial or serving extremely long prison sentences. New research by Professor Christopher Slobogin ...
Medical Xpress

Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase health inequities, study shows

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...
techtimes

Researchers Develop ‘Fairness’ Algorithms to Reduce AI Bias, Ensure Privacy

Bias in algorithms have always been a key issue in the growing field of artificial intelligence. For instance, researchers found in an experiment that flawed AI in robots has the tendency to make ...
The Conversation

Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase health inequities – it depends on what doctors use them for

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...
EurekAlert!

Reducing hospital stays through treatment algorithms that make a difference

MUSC Children's Health hematologists/oncologists Dr. Michelle Hudspeth (left) and Dr. Shayla Bergmann (right) conducted a study of a new algorithm to standardize the ...