By empowering judges with data-driven recommendations, they can help balance the scales of justice and correct for the biases present in even well-trained judges. American legal scholars have illustrated vast disparities in U.S. sentencing based on the race of the victim and the defendant.
One might gasp in horror at the concept of letting an AI decide someone's sentence.
Another might gasp in horror at the amount of bias in the current U.S. justice system.
AI-powered recommendations to correct for this bias? What about AI bias itself? These are complicated questions.
