Machine See, Machine Do
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Machine See, Machine Do

How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System

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eBook - ePub

Machine See, Machine Do

How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System

About this book

"When today's technology relies on yesterday's data, it will simply mirror our past mistakes and biases."

AI and other high-tech tools embed and reinforce America's history of prejudice and exclusion - even when they are used with the best intentions. Patrick K. Lin's Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System takes a deep and thorough look into the use of technology in the criminal justice system, and investigates the instances of coded bias present at every level.

In this book, you'll learn how algorithms and high-tech tools are used in unexpected ways: suggesting which neighborhoods to police, predicting whether someone is more or less likely to commit a crime, and determining how long someone's prison sentence should be.

Machine See, Machine Do takes you on an eye-opening journey of discovery, encouraging you to think twice about our current system of justice and the technology that supposedly makes it more "objective" and "fair." If you are someone who cares deeply about criminal justice reform, is curious about the role of technology in our day-to-day lives, and ultimately believes we should aspire to make both of these spaces more ethical and safe, this book is for you.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Part 1. Ghost in the Machine
  4. Chapter 1. Franglen’s Monster
  5. Chapter 2. Automating Bias
  6. Part 2. Automating the Watchers
  7. Chapter 3. Lights, Camera, Surveillance!
  8. Chapter 4. Cloudy Crystal Ball: Predictive Policing
  9. Chapter 5. Smile! You’re on Camera: Video Surveillance
  10. Chapter 6. AI Spy with My Little Eye: Facial Recognition
  11. Part 3. False Positive
  12. Chapter 7. Smoking Gun or Smoke and Mirrors: Forensic Evidence
  13. Chapter 8. Beyond a Relative Doubt: Forensic DNA Databases & Familial DNA Searches
  14. Part 4. May It Please the Algorithm
  15. Chapter 9. Algorithms Get Their Day in Court
  16. Chapter 10. Behind Closed Source: How the Law Keeps Algorithms Hidden from Us
  17. Chapter 11. Digital Shackles: How Parole Apps Put Prison in Your Pocket
  18. Part 5. Troubleshooting the Problem
  19. Chapter 12. Futureproofing Our Civil Liberties
  20. Chapter 13. Futureproofing Our Civil Liberties
  21. Chapter 14. Flipping the Script: The Role of the Private Sector
  22. Chapter 15. Beyond Technology: Expecting More from AI
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Appendix