Justice

Is it just to use artificial intelligence to decide sentences?

For

AI can reduce human bias and be more consistent.

Against

AI can still be biased and lacks human empathy.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • AI is not prone to having it’s own personal bias and life experience affect it’s ability to make a fair decision
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • The main benefit of this type of AI is that it would apply a consistent punishment to a criminal sentence every time.
    RedditOriginal language: English

Against

  • AI inherits the bias from the data, and should not be used to recommend longer prison sentences
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • With judicial discretion, there is always room for the statistical error of mercy or of considering the particularities of a person’s life
    RedditOriginal language: English
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