Such a tool is completely unethical and inappropriate, period. Automated "screening" related to decisions about whether to take someone's kids away or otherwise

Such a tool is completely unethical and inappropriate, period. Automated "screening" related to decisions about whether to take someone's kids away or otherwise intervene is the absolute last place we should be using this technology (along with other criminal justice system areas). these pattern driven tools stereotype by design and by definition. That's how statistical tools work. If the government doesn't care enough to have real people doing the work, they shouldn't be in the business of monitoring this kind of thing at all. Whatever bad outcomes would come from just getting rid of CPS, they would be worse by automating it. It's common sense and disgusting that this was ever allowed