DATDAT-003 — Data Bias and Fairness Oversights
Algorithmic Bias in Criminal Justice Risk-Assessment Tools
5/5Sector: TechnologyGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Predictive AI tools used in criminal justice produce racially biased outputs that distort sentencing and inflate incarceration rates. Boards face constitutional, regulatory, and reputational exposure when deploying or procuring such systems without robust bias governance.
Domain
Data Management
Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRiSM): Frameworks, Applications, Challenges and Future Research Directions (Habbal2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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