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ProPublica finds the COMPAS recidivism score falsely flags Black defendants as high risk at nearly twice the rate of white defendants
"Machine Bias" showed that a widely used criminal risk score was twice as likely to mislabel Black defendants as future criminals, launching the modern debate on fairness metrics in algorithmic justice.
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