Description: Department of Justice’s inmate-recidivism risk assessment tool was reported to have produced racially uneven results, misclassifying risk levels for inmates of color.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: US Department of Justice developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed inmates of color.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
154
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-01-26
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
GMF Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsKnown AI Goal Snippets
One or more snippets that justify the classification.
(Snippet Text: In a report issued days before Christmas in 2021, the department said its algorithmic tool for assessing the risk that a person in prison would return to crime produced uneven results. , Related Classifications: Recidivism Prediction)
CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
154
CSETv1_Annotator-1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
154
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
npr.org · 2022
- View the original report at its source
- View the report at the Internet Archive
Thousands of people are leaving federal prison this month thanks to a law called the First Step Act, which allowed them to win early release by participating in programs aimed at easing their return to society.
But thousands of others may s…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
Similar Incidents
Did our AI mess up? Flag the unrelated incidents
Similar Incidents
Did our AI mess up? Flag the unrelated incidents