Sendhil Mullainathan (econ prof at Harvard) is doing some work on using machine learning to predict whether people should be granted bail. The machine discrimin

Sendhil Mullainathan (econ prof at Harvard) is doing some work on using machine learning to predict whether people should be granted bail. The machine discrimination (no pun intended) issues here could be quite terrifying. Not published yet, but example abstract: http://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/event/sendhil-mullainathan-title-tba http://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/event/sendhil-mullainathan... On the other hand, there's starting to be some research on how to codify and prevent this in ML. For example: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3756 http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3756