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What if biases are easier to detect (and correct) in the cash bail system? If true, would it then be more moral to to stick with the cash bail system? I could
by ENOTTY 8y ago
What if biases are easier to detect (and correct) in the cash bail system? If true, would it then be more moral to to stick with the cash bail system?
I could argue that a judge's biases are harder to detect and correct because in doing so you literally have to accuse another human person of being biased, which is something nobody wants to do.
To argue that an algorithm is biased requires that one analyze all the data fed into the algorithm and gain some insight into the algorithm. Most of the time the original data is unavailable, incomplete, or proprietary and the models used to predict risk are also considered proprietary, which limits an outsider's ability to detect and correct biases.