{"id":265175,"date":"2024-11-22T20:56:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/risk-algorithm-used-widely-in-us-courts-is-harsher-than-human-judges\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:23","slug":"risk-algorithm-used-widely-in-us-courts-is-harsher-than-human-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/risk-algorithm-used-widely-in-us-courts-is-harsher-than-human-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk algorithm used widely in US courts is harsher than human judges"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Judges can use algorithms to help make their decisions<\/p>\n

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A US courtroom experiment suggests a popular risk assessment algorithm makes harsher recommendations than human judges \u2013 possibly because it is worse than people at anticipating which defendants will violate pretrial agreements.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome jurisdictions wanted to work with us to evaluate whether these recommendations are actually helping judges make a better decision,\u201d says Kosuke Imai<\/a> at Harvard University.<\/p>\n

In the US criminal justice system, judges determine whether defendants will await trial at home or in\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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