Even without the computer aided decision making program they say he would have been sentenced anyway but that's not the point. The point is every program has bu

Even without the computer aided decision making program they say he would have been sentenced anyway but that's not the point. The point is every program has bugs and if you have a closed source program that wrongly decides the fate of say 0.01% of people we need to be able to know these things. While judges and doctors and so on are supposed to rely on their judgement in addition to these programs there is potential for over reliance. I would not mind the closed source aspect so long as they pay 3rd party testers and auditors and release information about error rate but I have no idea if they actually do this. Interesting court case