Glitch in the System

The Algorithm That Decides Who Goes Free

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Episode Notes

When a judge turns to a machine learning model to decide who walks free and who stays behind bars, what happens to justice? In this episode, we investigate COMPAS and the algorithmic risk assessment tools reshaping the criminal justice system — the biases baked in, the lives affected, and the question nobody wants to answer: can code be fair?

What You'll Learn

  • How risk assessment algorithms actually work inside courtrooms
  • The ProPublica investigation that exposed racial bias in COMPAS
  • Why "fixing" algorithmic bias is harder than it sounds
  • What happens when we automate decisions about human freedom

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