Even if the software was statistically perfect and somehow immune to our cultural biases, it should still not be used. An individual stands before the judge, no

Even if the software was statistically perfect and somehow immune to our cultural biases, it should still not be used. An individual stands before the judge, not a statistical demographic group. The probability of an imaginary statistical individual's recidivism is irrelevant; what is relevant is the current state of that individual. Relying on statistical models is both lazy and unfair