Thursday 27 April 2017

Crime and virtual punishment

(University of Utah) Students from the University of Utah have created a new mobile 'game' for the iPhone and Android devices that demonstrates how software algorithms used by many of the nation's judicial courts to evaluate defendants could be biased like humans. Justice.exe is a free app in which the player chooses the minimum or maximum sentence for a series of convicted criminals, and the software's algorithm eventually tries to predict how the player would punish criminals.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2qcv5pi

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