Pretrial risk assessment algorithms are intended to help judges make more informed decisions, but researchers have raised concerns not only about the fairness and accuracy of the tools themselves, but ...

A new study that digs into when and how judges decide to use pretrial risk assessment algorithms found that many judges think these controversial tools are flawed but still useful. The tools, the ...

Duke Health researchers found the current medical standards for assessing stroke risk perform worse for Black patients than white patients. The study, published Jan. 24 in JAMA, evaluated existing ...

There is a trend of integration and modularization in navigation control system. It has the characteristics of high resource sharing, fast information transmission and integration of software and ...

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Side-by-Side Evaluation: The AI Algorithm Evaluator allows users to compare the results of similar algorithms simultaneously. This side-by-side assessment provides valuable insights into their ...

New Zealand’s minister for statistics, James Shaw, has released a draftAlgorithm Charteron government use of algorithms and initiated a public consultation on the issue. The draft charter has been ...