Brian Christian argues that attempts to replace idiosyncratic human judgment with numerical models in criminal justice are nearly a century old.

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"Brian Christian argues that attempts to replace idiosyncratic human judgment with numerical models in criminal justice are nearly a century old."

Christian uses the history of criminal-justice prediction to show that the effort to make human decisions more consistent, accurate, and fair through numerical models predates modern AI by many decades.

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Source title The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Source authors Brian Christian

Source year 2020

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