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