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Is the sentencing the bottleneck in the justice system? Is it something that is so tedious to do that we rather have a machine do it? Or is it that we want to

Is the sentencing the bottleneck in the justice system? Is it something that is so tedious to do that we rather have a machine do it? Or is it that we want to eliminate bias so we let the algorithm do it? Because machines are cold calculator that only cares about the data. Or is it shifting the responsibility? If a judge gives a light sentence to a person who ends up committing a crime again, does the judge get the blame? Is the algorithm an externalizer that dilutes the responsibility? "Well the machine said he was clean, it knows a thing or two we don't know. Plus it's a black box I'm just an ol judge. I don't know how email works, but it works all the same."

masklinn 5y ago
> "Well the machine said he was clean, it knows a thing or two we don't know. Plus it's a black box I'm just an ol judge. I don't know how email works, but it works all the same." Sounds like that, and the usual bias laundering because “AI” is helpful for that. AFAIK a sentencing hearing usually takes minutes, maybe an hour if the parties don’t agree and there are lots of victims or witnesses and the judge wants to hear from them. Only in rather exceptional case does the judge need to adjourn for sentencing.