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Limitations of mitigating judicial bias with machine learning

Nature Human Behaviour volume 1, Article number: 0141 (2017) Cite this article

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Machine-learning algorithms trained with data that encode human bias will reproduce, not eliminate, the bias, says Kristian Lum.

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  1. lead statistician at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, 109 Bartlett Street Suite 204, San Francisco, 94110, California, USA

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Lum, K. Limitations of mitigating judicial bias with machine learning. Nat Hum Behav 1, 0141 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0141

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